Screen Education #76

Screen Education is a quarterly magazine for media teachers, and for primary and secondary teachers interested in harnessing the power of visual media to stimulate learning. It is essential reading for those with an interest in media literacy, offering a unique and engaging perspective on screen education, and is an invaluable resource for upper secondary students and university students studying film.

Each issue provides the reader with practical classroom ideas, lesson plans and activities along with essays, study guides, updates on new technology, and research into media pedagogy. The magazine also analyses and offers ways to navigate the ever-changing new media landscape and the benefits (e.g. interactive learning tools) and potential issues (e.g. cyberbullying and pornography) that come with it. Screen Education publishes articles by educators, scholars and critics, and is partially refereed.

ISSUE 76 (SUMMER 2015) CONTENTS

New & Notable
'A Different Shade of Evil: Questions of Ethics in Maleficent' – Adolfo Aranjuez
'Siren Songs on Screen: The Fault in Our Stars and Depictions of Death' – Carolyn Leslie

Screens in the Classroom
'Talking Climate Change with 2 Degrees' – Kath Dooley
'Talking Toys: A Study Guide to the Toy Story Trilogy' – Kim Edwards
'Playing by Different Rules: Satirising Sport and Society' – Luke Rodesiler

Talking Society
'Over the Rainbow: Representation, Stereotypes and the Queer Prestige Film' – David Crewe
'Girls Against the World: Female Representation in Modern Hollywood' – Alexandra Donald
'Access All Areas: Bringing Accessible Cinema to a School near You' – Jasmine Crittenden

Teaching Media
'Activism and Antagonism: The Blackfish Effect' – Rebekah Brammer
'Early Birds: Little Big Shots and the Burgeoning Kids Film Festival Scene' – Susanna Nelson
'Formulating Questions that Foster Critical Media Literacy' – Jennifer Bleazby
'World Wide Classrooms: Taking Online Education into a New Dimension' – Celia Lambert

Film Schools
'Murdoch University & Western Australian Screen Academy' – Dylan Bird

Tech'd Out
'Virtual Toolkit' – Jane Shields
'Software Review: Apple Compressor & Adobe Media Encoder CC' – Christopher Kenworthy

Film as Text
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Desire in the Unhappy Family' – Eloise Ross
'Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the History of the Teen Film' – Sarah Ward
'Stedfast as Thou Art: Bright Star' – Jasmine Crittenden