Screen Education #79

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 79 (SPRING 2015) CONTENTS

New & Notable
'Power from a Different Perspective: Race, Gender and Grief in Big Hero 6' – Adolfo Aranjuez
'The Future Is Now: Revisiting the Present in Back to the Future' – Myke Bartlett

Screens in the Classroom
'Quick Plays: Studying Short Sports-based Documentaries' – Luke Rodesiler
'Great Escapes: A Study Guide to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' – Mark Rafidi

Blockbuster Central
'Safety in Numbers: The Staggering Success of the "Ensemble Action Movie"' – Peter Gutiérrez

Talking Society
'Never Forgotten: Discussing Dementia in the Classroom' – Anne Vize
'Stuck in Time: Intersex and Transgender Representation in Predestination' – Hanna Schenkel

Filmmaker Profile
'Wes Anderson' – Anthony Carew

Teaching Media
'Following Trending Topics: Social Media in Modern Teen Movies' – David Crewe
'Constructing "Reality": My Kitchen Rules and Reality TV Cooking Shows' – Michelle Phillipov

Tech'd Out
'Virtual Toolkit' – Jane Shields

Film Schools
'Queensland University of Technology & New York Film Academy Australia' – Dylan Bird

Film as Text
'Hero in the Shadows: Film Noir, Fairytale and Postmodernism in Drive' – Gabrielle O'Brien
'Colonial Dreamings: Race and Imaginative Landscapes in One Night the Moon' – Jasmine Crittenden
'Double Indemnity: Film Noir and the Dark Side of Masculinity' – Christopher Mallon