Table of contents for No. 96 in Screen Education

YEAR 8 AVAILABLE NOW Depth Study 1: The Western and Islamic World » Medieval Europe » Renaissance Italy » The Ottoman Empire » The Vikings Depth Study 2: The Asia-Pacific World » Japan Under the Shoguns » Angkor/Khmer Empire » The Polynesian Expansion Across the Pacific Depth Study 3: Expanding Contacts » Mongol Expansion » The Black Death in Asia, Europe and Africa » The Spanish Conquest of the Americas Depth Study 6D (NSW: Expanding Contacts) » Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History (Covers Australian Aborigines, North American Indians, New Zealand Maori) AVAILABLE NOW 2019 (INCLUDES TITLES FOR DEPTH STUDY 1 AND 3. Depth Study 1: Making a Better World? » The Industrial Revolution Depth Study 2: Australia and Asia » Making a Nation (Forthcoming in 2019) Depth…

1 Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker, ‘Notes on Metamodernism’, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010, available at <https://www.tandfonline. com/doi/full/10.3402/jac.v2i0.5677>, accessed 24 September 2019. 2 Luke Turner, ‘Metamodernism: A Brief Introduction’, Notes on Metamodernism, 12 January 2015, <http://www. metamodernism.com/2015/01/12/metamodernism-a-brief -introduction/>, accessed 18 September 2019. 3 See Jim Taylor, ‘Is Technology Creating a Family Divide?’, Psychology Today, 13 March 2013, <https://www.psychology today.com/au/blog/the-power-prime/201303/is-technology -creating-family-divide>, accessed 7 October 2019. 4 Carmen Lee, ‘Language Choice and Self-presentation in Social Media: The Case of University Students in Hong Kong’, in Philip Seargeant & Caroline Tagg (eds), Th Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2014, pp. 92–3. 5 Toshie Takahashi, ‘Creating the Self in the Digital Age: Young People and Mobile…

1 Dorothea Mackellar, ‘My Country’, 1908, available at <https:// www.dorotheamackellar.com.au/archive/mycountry.htm>,accessed 27 September 2019. 2 Andrew Pike & Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977, rev. edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998 [1980], p. 5. 3 Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2000. 4 Robert Drewe, Our Sunshine, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 1991. 5 Mackellar, op. cit. 6 ibid. 7 For more on this film, see Brian McFarlane, ‘Down Under Desperado: The Legend of Ben Hall and the Bushranger Film’, Metro, no. 193, 2017, pp. 28–31. 8 Philip French, ‘The Proposition’, The Observer, 12 March 2006, <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/mar/12/review. features>, accessed 27 September 2019, emphasis added. 9 Guy Lodge, ‘Film Review: Sweet Country’, Variety, 6 September 2017, <https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/sweet-country -review-1202548977/>, accessed 28 September 2019.…

1 The Stolen Generations were the consequence of a government program that removed mixed-race or ‘half-caste’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. This policy was enacted around the turn of the twentieth century and continued well into its latter half. For more information, see ‘The Stolen Generations: The Forcible Removal of Indigenous Children from Their Families’, Australians Together website, <https://australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/ stolen-generations>, accessed 19 September 2019. 2 Amy Thunig, ‘Even Education Has Been Used as a Weapon of White Supremacy in Australia’, The Guardian, 5 July 2019, <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/05/ even-education-has-been-used-as-a-weapon-of-white -supremacy-in-australia>, accessed 25 September 2019. 3 On 25 July 2016, the ABC’s Four Corners program aired a very disturbing report on the Northern Territory’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, whose footage of young Indigenous boys being tortured inspired public…

The following resources can support teachers and students in learning more about efforts to empower girls and women around the world. The Half the Sky movement <http://www.halftheskymovement.org> Inspired by the work of journalists Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn,18 the Half the Sky movement aims to end the oppression of girls and women across the world. Teachers and students can learn more about empowering women through various resources, including a book, a documentary series, videos and games. I Am Malala In 2040, when addressing the importance of empowering and educating girls and women, Gameau includes clips featuring Malala Yousafzai. Through her book,19 teachers and students can read about Yousafzai – who was shot after speaking out publicly for girls’ right to learn – and her fight for equal education in…

‘This show will wreck your evening, your whole life and your day.’ These words ring out from the opening titles of Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, breaking the fourth wall and more – warning away the audience, but doing so in a way that invites them to enjoy the tragedy that will unfold on their screens. By the third season, the theme song acknowledges that anyone who is still watching ‘has clearly lost all reason’. Sung by the villainous character Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), it covertly invites us to keep watching, but to do so as competent, intelligent consumers of scary tales. In this way, it is the perfect articulation of a key message in the series of children’s books that Unfortunate Events adapts: that young audiences, like…

1 Adrian Martin, ‘The Surrealist Roots of Video Essays’, Keyframe, 17 May 2016, available at <http://www.filmscalpel. com/wp-content/uploads/1919/10/The-Surrealist-Roots-of-Video-Essays-Martin.pdf>, accessed 30 September 2019. 2 ‘About [in]Transition’, MediaCommons website, <http:// mediacommons.org/intransition/about>, accessed 30 September 2019. 3 For examples of Australian and New Zealand contributions to [in]Transition, see the following: Stereotowns (Ross, 2016), available at <http://mediacommons.org/intransition/ stereotowns>; The Inward/Outward Turn (Martin, 2014), available at <http://mediacommons.org/intransition/2014/ 09/14/inwardoutward-turn>; Against the Real (Álvarez López & Martin, 2015), available at <http://mediacommons. org/intransition/2015/05/25/against-real>; and the special issue of [in]Transition entitled ‘The Poetics of Eye Tracking’, guest-edited by Tessa Dwyer, Claire Perkins and Sean Redmond and including four video essays, available at <http://mediacommons.org/intransition/ theme-week/2017/36/poetics-eye-tracking>, all accessed 30 September 2019. 4 Not Another Brick in the Wall: Teaching and Researching the Audio Video Essay symposium, Monash University, Caulfield, 19–20 November 2018.…

1 Janet Wilson, ‘Reconsidering Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978): The Screen Adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s Novel (1972)’, Studies in Australasian Cinema, vol. 1, no. 2, August 2007, pp. 191–3. 2 See ‘The Ulan Murder and Other Incidents’, The Mudgee Guardian and North-western Representative, 26 July 1900, special supplement, p. 1; ‘A Complete Narrative: Absence of Motive’, The Daily Telegraph, 23 July 1900, p. 9; ‘The Black Outlaws’, The Evening News, 1 September 1900, p. 5; and ‘Horrible Murders’, The Nepean Times, 28 July 1900, p. 3. 3 Frank Clune, Jimmy Governor: The True Story, Horwitz, Sydney, 1959. 4 See Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, 1997, pp. 91–5, available…

1 Todd Spangler, ‘HBO’s Chernobyl Is Now the Top-rated TV Show on IMDb’, Variety, 5 June 2019, &lt;https://variety.com/2019/ digital/news/chernobyl-top-rated-tv-show-all-time-1203233833/&gt;,accessed 25 September 2019. 2 Craig Mazin, in ‘The Chernobyl Podcast | Part One | HBO’, YouTube, 6 May 2019, &lt;https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=rUeHPCYtWYQ&gt;, accessed 25 September 2019. 3 See David Wise, ‘Closing Down the KGB’, The New York Times Magazine, 24 November 1991, &lt;https://www.nytimes. com/1991/11/24/magazine/closing-down-the-kgb.html&gt;,accessed 25 September 2019. 4 Stephen King, Twitter post dated 30 May 2019, &lt;https://twitter. com/StephenKing/status/1134084923915145218&gt;, accessed 25 September 2019. 5 Dan Bongino, Twitter post dated 31 May 2019, &lt;https://twitter. com/dbongino/status/1134237358411460609&gt;, accessed 25 September 2019. 6 Craig Mazin, Twitter post dated 31 May 2019, &lt;https://twitter. com/clmazin/status/1134256172284801024&gt;, accessed 25 September 2019. 7 See Lee McIntyre, ‘Lies, Damn Lies and Post-truth’, The Conversation, 19 November 2018, &lt;https://theconversation.com/ lies-damn-lies-and-post-truth-106049&gt;, accessed 25 September 2019.…

1 ‘Toy Story’, Rotten Tomatoes, <https://www.rottentomatoes. com/m/toy_story>, accessed 24 August 2019. 2 ‘1995 Domestic Grosses’, Box Office Mojo, <https://www.box officemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1995&p=.htm>, accessed 24 August 2019. 3 ‘Toy Story 4’, Box Office Mojo, <https://www.boxofficemojo. com/movies/?id=pixar2017.htm>, accessed 24 August 2019. 4 These films were the focus of the second ever Cinema Science piece; see David Crewe, ‘Cinema Science: The Fast and the Furious and the Mechanics of Dangerous Driving’, Screen Education, issue 87, 2017, pp. 32–9. 5 Kyle Desiderio & Ian Phillips, ‘How Pixar’s Animation Has Evolved over 24 Years, from Toy Story to Toy Story 4’, Insider, 20 June 2019, <https://www.insider.com/pixars-animation -evolved-toy-story-2019-6>, accessed 24 August 2019. 6 ibid. 7 ibid. 8 Claudia Chung, quoted in Emilie Lorditch, ‘Brave Features Hair-raising Animations’, Inside Science, 20 June 2012, <https://www.insidescience.org/news/brave-features-hair -raising-animations>, accessed 24 August 2019.…

1 Jim Lounsbury, ‘Directors [sic] Statement’, The Meaning of Vanlife official website, <https://www.vanlife.com.au/ the-meaning-of-vanlife>, accessed 1 October 2019. 2 ‘New Age Travellers’, Timeshift, BBC Four, aired 21 October 2004. 3 For more on this topic, see Richard Jinman, ‘The Battle of the Beanfield: The Violent New-age Traveller Clash with Police at Stonehenge Remembered 30 Years On’, The Independent, 30 May 2015, <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home -news/the-battle-of-the-beanfield-the-violent-new-age-traveller-clash-with-police-at-stonehenge-remembered-10287028.html>, accessed 1 October 2019. 4 See <https://www.instagram.com/vanlifediaries/>, accessed 1 October 2019. 5 ‘The Reality of #VanLife – Full Documentary Movie’, YouTube, 12 August 2018, <https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=A6McizBPKaE>, accessed 1 October 2019. 6 ‘#Vanlife with No Filter: Couple Records Work/Life on Wheels’, YouTube, 15 February 2016, <https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=ZGud34X3j5M&t=151s>, accessed 1 October 2019. 7 ‘The Hidden Homelessness Crisis in California (HBO)’, YouTube, 6 September 2018, <https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2wCHtOTxQak>, accessed 1 October…

Claire Denis may well be the greatest female filmmaker in the history of cinema – but what’s for sure is that she hates that label. ‘When you say “female director” I already want to stop this conversation!’ Denis declaimed in a 2018 interview. ‘Female director? I feel like I am an animal. I am a female director like this is a female bird. No, I am a director.’1 At a time when conversations about gender disparity in directing have dominated film discourse, Denis remains defiant, a refusenik uninterested in participating in the conversation. ‘I couldn’t care less about the [Harvey] Weinstein affair – it hasn’t changed anything for women,’ she has said, dismissing the #MeToo discussion as ‘bourgeois’.2 You can forgive her for regarding the conversation as reductive and uninteresting…

1 See David Fear, ‘What Do We Want from The Lion King and Disney’s Live-action Remakes?’, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2019, <https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/ the-lion-king-aladdin-mulan-disney-live-action-859487/>,accessed 24 September 2019. 2 Siobhan O’Flynn, ‘Epilogue’, in Linda Hutcheon with O’Flynn, A Theory of Adaptation, 2nd edn, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2013, p. 180. 3 Tasha Robinson, ‘Films like The House with a Clock in Its Walls Are Poisonous to Kids’ Cinema’, The Verge, 23 September 2018, <https://www.theverge. com/2018/9/23/17893036/house-with-a-clock-in-its-walls-review-film-jack-black-cate-blanchett-eli-roth>, accessed 24 September 2019. 4 Sam Wollaston, ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events Review – Fabulous Steampunk Fun’, The Guardian, 13 January 2017, <https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and -radio/2017/jan/13/lemony-snickets-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-review-netflix>, accessed 24 September 2019. 5 Ben Travers, ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events Review: Season 3 Serves Up a Righteous and Resplendent Ending’, IndieWire, 1 January 2019, <https://www.indiewire.com/ 2019/01/netflix-series-of-unfortunate-events-season -3-review-spoilers-1202031465/>, accessed…

1 Adrian Martin, Mise en Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014, p. 88, emphasis in original. 2 Annette Kuhn, ‘Cinematic Experience, Film Space, and the Child’s World’, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 92–3. Kuhn is also the author of a book in the British Film Institute’s ‘Film Classics’ series on Ratcatcher. 3 See Cristina Álvarez López, ‘Foreplays #2: Lynne Ramsay’s Gasman’, Notebook, 3 July 2017, <https://mubi.com/notebook/ posts/foreplays-2-lynne-ramsay-s-gasman>, accessed 6 September 2019. 4 Kuhn, op. cit., p. 89. 5 ibid., p. 90.…

1 ‘Roma – an Invitation from the Director’, Netflix, <https://www. netflix.com/au/title/80240715>, accessed 1 October 2019. 2 See Kristopher Tapley, ‘Alfonso Cuarón on the Painful and Poetic Backstory Behind Roma’, Variety, 23 October 2018, <https://variety.com/2018/film/news/roma-alfonso-cuaron -netflix-libo-rodriguez-1202988695/>; and ‘Roma Stars Break Down the Film’s Unique Shooting Style’, Los Angeles Times, 18 February 2019, <https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ movies/moviesnow/la-en-mn-roma-live-20190218-story.html>,both accessed 1 October 2019. 3 See Zack Sharf, ‘Alfonso Cuarón at Cannes 2018: Festival “Continuing to Beg” Netflix to Let Roma Premiere’, IndieWire, 13 April 2018, <https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/alfonso -cuaron-cannes-roma-netflix-ban-1201952422/>, accessed 1 October 2019. 4 ‘The 40 Best Films of 2018’, Sight & Sound, 11 January 2019, <https://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2018>, accessed 4 October 2019. 5 Louise Tutt, ‘Why Alfonso Cuaron Teamed Up with Netflix on Roma’, Screen Daily, 11 January 2019, &lt;https://www.screendaily. com/features/why-alfonso-Cuar%C3%B3n-teamed-up-with -netflix-on-roma/5135040.article&gt;, accessed 1 October 2019. 6 Paul Gillingham,…

1 See Eric Kohn, ‘John C. Reilly’s Producing Partner and Wife, Alison Dickey, Is the Secret Hero of The Sisters Brothers’, IndieWire, 21 September 2018, <https://www.indiewire.com/ 2018/09/the-sisters-brothers-john-c-reilly-alison-dickey-jacques-audiard-1202005849/>, accessed 11 September 2019. 2 See, for example, Shane Scott-Travis, ‘The 25 Best Revisionist Westerns of All Time’, Taste of Cinema, 4 June 2015, <http:// www.tasteofcinema.com/2015/the-25-best-revisionist -westerns-of-all-time/>, accessed 11 September 2019. 3 Jacques Audiard, quoted in Philippa Hawker, ‘French Film Festival: Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or Winner Dheepan Is a Highlight’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 2016, <https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/french-film -festival-jacques-audiards-palme-dor-winner-dheepan-is-a -highlight-20160223-gn1px3.html>, accessed 11 September 2019.…

1 Scott Beggs, ‘How Guardians of the Galaxy Celebrates the Family We Choose’, Nerdist, 9 May 2017, <https://nerdist.com/ article/how-guardians-of-the-galaxy-celebrates-the-family-we-choose/>, accessed 16 September 2019. 2 Dave Bautista, quoted in Eric Eisenberg, ‘The Truth Behind Drax and Mantis’ Relationship, According to Dave Bautista’, CinemaBlend, 5 May 2017, <https://www.cinemablend.com/ news/1655590/the-truth-behind-drax-and-mantis-relationship-according-to-dave-bautista>, accessed 16 September 2019. 3 Alasdair Stuart, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Is a Story About Finding, and Choosing, Your Family’, Tor.com, 28 April 2017, <https://www.tor.com/2017/04/28/guardians-of-the-galaxy-is -a-story-about-finding-and-choosing-your-family/>, accessed 16 September 2019. 4 Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, quoted in Matthew Erao, ‘How the Guardians of the Galaxy Have Changed in the Years After Vol. 2’, Screen Rant, 15 March 2018, <https://screenrant.com/ guardians-of-the-galaxy-avengers-infinity-war-changes/>,accessed 16 September 2019. 5 Stuart, op. cit.…

Indigenous Australians’ lives are too often overlooked by politicians, media organisations and the broader sphere of middle-class Australia. In light of this, director Maya Newell’s feature documentary In My Blood It Runs (2019) provides tremendous insight into the Northern Territory’s Indigenous communities. By directing its point of view through protagonist Dujuan Hoosan, a ten-year-old Arrernte/ Garrwa child-healer, Newell’s film offers an intimate portrait of the embodied and psychological experience of being a young Aboriginal child. In My Blood It Runs is one of those unique films that gets under one’s skin, with audiences of diverse backgrounds given the opportunity to empathise and identify with young Dujuan and his family as they struggle to cope with various government institutions – the education system, welfare and law enforcement – whose ostensible purposes…

1 Kevin Lavery, ‘Sync or Swim: Loop’, Screen Education, no. 83, Spring 2016, p. 101. 2 See Gregory Lewis, ‘The Most In-demand Hard and Soft Skills of 2019’, LinkedIn Talent Blog, 3 January 2019, <https://business.linkedin.com/talent -solutions/blog/trends-and-research/2018/the-most-in-demand-hard-and -soft-skills-of-2018>, accessed 2 October 2019. 3 David Pogue, ‘Adobe’s Software Subscription Model Means You Can’t Own Your Software’, Scientific American, 1 October 2013, <https:// www.scientificamerican.com/article/ adobe-software-subscription-model -means-you-cant-own-your-software />, accessed 2 October 2019. 4 RoughAnimator is available for a free trial or for US$4.99 to buy outright. While I normally try to talk about free technology in this column, I’ve found that, with this sort of software, the free versions don’t offer the same functionality or usability that a paid app like RoughAnimator does – they’re just not as simple for onboarding (and, all in…