ETAQ Saturday Seminar 2, 2016 Script, Stage and Screen in the English Classroom Saturday 21 May, 2016 The Gap State High School, 1020 Waterworks Rd, The Gap QLD 4061 Context the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” “All As You Like It, by You Know Who The telling of stories is an oral tradition. Our writing of them came much later; our study of them much later still. Often it is our film and play studies that our students remember and perhaps this is in part because it’s where we afford them the pleasure of being told a story in its purest form. Telling and retelling stories through different mediums - play scripts, performances, films - occupies much of our attention in subject English, but perhaps these units are so central to our work that we examine them less than we should. Seminar 2 provides the ideal opportunity for us to engage and re- engage with our favourite play, film and multimodal studies. Keynote Address 1: Keynote Address 2: Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Teaching Contemporary Australian Gothic Australian Film, Theatre, and Literature Drama in the English Classroom Presenter Linda Hassel Presenter Jane Sadler Linda is an acknowledged expert in Australian Jane is Associate Professor of Film and Media Gothic drama and is a Lecturer at Griffith University Studies in the School of Communication and Arts in the Contemporary and Applied Theatre at the University of Queensland, She led a Department. Linda has over 25 years experience as collaborative Australian Research Council a director, playwright and dramaturge in research project on landscape and location in professional and independent theatre industry Australian narratives (2011–2014) and has contexts. She applies her comprehensive a book on this topic (Imagined knowledge of playwrighting and performance to her Landscapes, 2016), and she is author of Pulling teaching and research disciplines at Griffith (2008), co-author of (2009) Focus Screen Media University. and Media and Society (2012), and co-editor of an anthology on adaptation, Pockets of Change Abstract (2011). Her research interests span Australian This presentation focuses on teaching and screen landscapes and locations through to analysing contemporary Gothic plays in the English phenomenological, philosophical, and classroom. Drawing on my expertise in the field as a neuropsychological understandings of playwright, director and academic I will explore spectatorship. unique ways of presenting and analysing the
ETAQ Saturday Seminar 2, 2016 Script, Stage and Screen in the English Classroom Saturday 21 May, 2016 The Gap State High School, 1020 Waterworks Rd, The Gap QLD 4061 Context “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” As You Like It, by You Know Who The telling of stories is an oral tradition. Our writing of them came much later; our study of them much later still. Often it is our film and play studies that our students remember and perhaps this is in part because it’s where we afford them the pleasure of being told a story in its purest form. Telling and retelling stories through different mediums - play scripts, performances, films - occupies much of our attention in subject English, but perhaps these units are so central to our work that we examine them less than we should. Seminar 2 provides the ideal opportunity for us to engage and re- engage with our favourite play, film and multimodal studies. Keynote Address 1: Atopian Landscapes: Gothic Tropes in Australian Film, Theatre, and Literature Presenter Jane Sadler Jane is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, She led a collaborative Australian Research Council research project on landscape and location in Australian narratives (2011–2014) and has a book on this topic (Imagined Landscapes, 2016), and she is author of Pulling Focus (2008), co-author of Screen Media (2009) and Media and Society (2012), and co-editor of an anthology on adaptation, Pockets of Change (2011). Her research interests span Australian screen landscapes and locations through to phenomenological, philosophical, and neuropsychological understandings of spectatorship. Keynote Address 2: Teaching Contemporary Australian Gothic Drama in the English Classroom Presenter Linda Hassel Linda is an acknowledged expert in Australian Gothic drama and is a Lecturer at Griffith University in the Contemporary and Applied Theatre Department. Linda has over 25 years experience as a director, playwright and dramaturge in professional and independent theatre industry contexts. She applies her comprehensive knowledge of playwrighting and performance to her teaching and research disciplines at Griffith University. Abstract This presentation focuses on teaching and analysing contemporary Gothic plays in the English classroom. Drawing on my expertise in the field as a playwright, director and academic I will explore unique ways of presenting and analysing the
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