[csaa-forum] FW: UNSW Media Film & Theatre seminar ~ Sue Turnbull

[Buettner, Angi]

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> From: 	James Donald
> Sent: 	Monday, September 12, 2005 13:53 PM
> Subject: 	UNSW Media Film & Theatre seminar ~ Sue Turnbull
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> UNSW Media, Film and Theatre Seminars
> 5 p.m. Wednesday 14 September 2005
> Webster Building 327
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> Teaching for the Revolution
> The Long March of 
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> Media Studies
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> Sue Turnbull
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> During my Postgraduate Teaching Course at Cambridge University in 1974, we were shown Jean Vigo's Zero De Conduite (1933).  The film mocks the deadening effects of mindless discipline in school and celebrates freedom and anarchy, culminating in the image of the boys escaping over the roof tops.  Vigo's film, and the critique of formal schooling which it implied, thus played a formative role in my teacher education - and, I imagine, that of many others in the 1970s.  Indeed, within my own first year out, I managed (inadvertently, of course) to replicate an image from Vigo's film in my own Media class.  In this paper, I trace the trajectory of Media Studies as an area of study in schools (with passing reference to the universities), culminating in the arrival of what has been called the 'new vocationalism'. Along the way, I discuss questions about aesthetics and affect which are central to my current thinking about the role of media education in schools and universities. 
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> Sue Turnbull
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>  Dr Sue Turnbull is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at La Trobe University.  She has published broadly in the fields of media education, audience studies and the aesthetics of popular culture. With Vyv Stranieri she recently published a study guide for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image entitled, Bite Me: Narrative Structures and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003).  She is currently collaborating on a history of Australian screen comedy with particular attention to the innovative role of ABC.  Her most recent research is concerned with popular culture and questions of aesthetics in the classroom.
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> Dr James Donald
> Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney
> NSW 2052
> Australia
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