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[ecrea] Call for writers - 'Screen Education' magazine

Fri Mar 08 09:11:42 GMT 2013





SCREEN EDUCATION MAGAZINE
CALL FOR WRITERS/CALL FOR PAPERS


Screen Education magazine is seeking industry practitioners, teachers, academics and experienced feature writers with a proven background in film, television and media. We are always looking for new contributors and welcome unsolicited submissions or article proposals.

If you wish to contribute, please contact Tim Coronel at (magazines /at/ atom.org.au).
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS EMAIL.

Please include a description of the article(s) you are proposing and outline any relevant experience you may have in relation to the topic. If you are a new contributor, please also include a brief bio and a writing sample. Due to a high number of responses, there may be a delay before we are able to respond to your proposal.

Pay rates and submission guidelines are available on our website: http://www.metromagazine.com.au/writers.html.


Feature articles
The following list of topics is by no means exhaustive, and can be adapted, changed and, hopefully, greatly extended. For a sense of the kinds of themes and topics that Screen Education covers visit http://www.metromagazine.com.au/screen_ed/.

* Lesson plans and units of work for the media classroom (primary and secondary) on media literacy/multiliteracies * Teaching units relating to media influence, including the effects of texts on audiences and society * Teaching units relating to the way the media in general, as well as individual texts, are actively used by different individuals, audiences and society for different purposes
    * Teaching units relating to communication theories and models
    * New trends in the media classroom and curriculum
* Using magazines, comics, graphic novels, zines and newspapers in the classroom
    * Teaching storytelling skills in the primary or secondary classroom
    * Teaching technical skills in primary or secondary classroom
    * Teaching multimedia
* Reviews and discussion of educational apps for tablet, mobile and desktop devices (iOS, Android) as well as web-based media applications
    * Using animation and machinima in the classroom
* Teaching units relating to analysing posters, trailers, video clips, DVD covers and soundtracks * Major factors in choosing film texts – a guide to choosing the right texts * Discussions and teaching guides for feature films, documentaries and series with relevance to media and English classrooms

A few specific topics the editor would encourage submissions on include:

* Commercial, popular TV, esp. reality shows such as cooking competitions, talent quests, real estate/home improvement shows, etc. * Recent scandals in popular broadcast media (i.e the prank call to Kate Middleton’s nurse, Kyle Sandilands, Alan Jones): free speech vs. civil speech
    * Indigenous broadcasting: the launch of NITV
    * Recent literary adaptations, e.g. Anna Karenina, Great Expectations
* Differing presentations of news/current affairs between commercial networks and ABC/SBS
    * Sexuality/GLBTI/youth sex ed. issues
    * Censorship, classification, transgression, boundaries
* Technical analyses and/or ‘insider’ articles on making ads: visual and narrative techniques for convincing and selling

Screen Education is a partially refereed journal and we are therefore also interested in research articles from academics on areas of media teaching and learning. If you have a proposal, please send an abstract.


Film as Text
We are interested in essays on any films that are being taught as texts in the English or Media classrooms. These articles are approximately 2000-2500 words long and provide close, detailed analysis of key themes and filmic techniques. We are seeking Film as Text articles on the following films (bolded titles are a priority), though other relevant texts will also be considered:


The 39 Steps
Across the Universe
All Quiet on the Western Front
Amadeus
Amazing Grace
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Accidental Tourist
The African Queen
Atonement
Australian Rules
Being There
Beneath Clouds
The Big Chill
Big Fish
Blade Runner
Blood Diamond
Boyz n the Hood
Bra Boys
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (directed by Francis Ford Coppola)
Bran Nue Dae
Braveheart
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Bright Star
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Careful, He Might Hear You
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Catch-22
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Chariots of Fire
Chinatown
The Color Purple
Cool Hand Luke
Cosi
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Crucible
Cry Freedom
The Crying Game
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dances With Wolves
Dangerous Liaisons
Dead Heart
Dead Poets Society
Death at a Funeral
The Dish
Dog Day Afternoon
Doubt
Dr Strangelove
Dr Zhivago
An Education
The Elephant Man
Elizabeth
The English Patient
Equus
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Eye of the Storm
Fargo
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fido
Fly Away Home
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Gallipoli (directed by Peter Weir)
Gandhi
Girlfight
Gladiator
Glengarry Glen Ross
Gone with the Wind
Good Morning Vietnam
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations (directed by David Lean)
Groundhog Day
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Hamlet (directed by Kenneth Branagh)
The Handmaid’s Tale
Harold and Maude
Hating Alison Ashley
Henry V (directed by Kenneth Branagh)
Hero
High Noon
Holes
Il Postino
The Importance of Being Earnest (directed by Oliver Parker)
In the Name of the Father


Inception
Japanese Story
JFK
Juno
The Killing Fields
Kundun
LA Confidential
The Last Picture Show
Lawrence of Arabia
Little Miss Sunshine
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Lousy Little Sixpence
Macbeth (directed by Roman Polanski)
Manhattan
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (directed by Kenneth Branagh)
M*A*S*H
Midnight Cowboy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed and adapted by Michael Hoffman)
Montana
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mooladé
The Mosquito Coast
Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Kenneth Branagh)
Mulholland Drive
Muriel’s Wedding
My Brilliant Career
My Year Without Sex
Never Let Me Go
A Night at the Opera
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Night the Moon
Ordinary People
Passage to India
Philadelphia
The Pianist
The Piano
Ponyo
Pretty Woman
The Princess Bride
The Queen
Radiance
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rebel Without a Cause
Remember the Titans
Red River
Rio Bravo
Romulus, My Father
Room with a View
The Royal Tenenbaums
Samson and Delilah
The Searchers
Sense and Sensibility (directed by Ang Lee)
Seven Samurai
Shane
The Shawshank Redemption
Shine
The Sixth Sense
Some Like it Hot
Somersault
Stagecoach
Stand By Me
Streetcar Named Desire
Strictly Ballroom
The Sum of Us
Synecdoche, NY
The Tempest (directed by Julie Taymor)
Terms of Endearment
Tootsie
Topsy-Turvy
Triumph of the Will
Twilight
Unforgiven
The Untouchables
W.
Wake in Fright
WALL·E
The Wave
West Side Story
When Harry Met Sally
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Year of Living Dangerously
Yolngu Boy


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