Screen Education #83

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 83 (SPRING 2016) CONTENTS

New & Notable
'Journeying Through the Wild: The Jungle Book' – Carolyn Leslie
'Excavating Knowledge: Jurassic Park in the Classroom' –David Crewe

Screens in the Classroom
'Drumming to a Different Beat: Whiplash' – Susanna Nelson
'All of Them Witches: Individuality, Conformity and the Occult on Screen' – Sarah Ward
'No Man Is an Island: Finding Friendship in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' – Garry Westmore
'Bringing the Law to Life: Legal Briefs' – Shasta Stevic

Blockbuster Central
'Critiquing the Critics: Part One' – Peter Gutiérrez

Talking Society
'Damsels in Development: Representation, Transition and the Disney Princess' – Sam Higgs
'Ladies First: Studying Short Documentaries About Women in Sport' – Luke Rodesiler

Filmmaker Profile
'Tim Burton' – Rebekah Brammer

Teaching Media
'Movie Masters in the Making: Young Filmmakers on Success' – Dylan Bird
'Practical Effects for the Digital World' – Peter W Allen

Tech’d Out
'Sync or Swim: Loop' – Kevin Lavery
'Virtual Toolkit' – Jane Shields

Film as Text
'Liminal Vision: Transformation and Renewal in Pan's Labyrinth' – Gabrielle O'Brien
'Smoke and Mirrors in the South: Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire' – Jasmine Crittenden
'Artificial Intimacy: Technology and Human Connection in Her’ – Anthony Carew