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  1. Estelle

    SSAAANZ Regional Hubs

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    Comment 7 November 2023
    We encourage members to continue or create regional SSAAANZ ‘hubs’, to bring people together face-to-face in between the biennial conference. This is an opportunity to share research in progress, and compare teaching experiences and approaches, and socialise with fellow screen studies scholars. It might take the form of regular or...
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    Estelle

    SSAAANZ reports on Professor Adam Lowenstein visiting Australia

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    Comment 10 May 2023
    Compiled and edited by Claire Henry In March 2023, esteemed horror scholar Professor Adam Lowenstein (University of Pittsburgh) visited Australia and was hosted by SSAAANZ Executive Committee members Dr Jessica Balanzategui (RMIT University) in Melbourne, Dr Claire Henry (Flinders University) in Adelaide, and Dr Max Bledstein (UNSW) in Sydney. SSAAANZ...
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    Estelle

    Proposed Video Essay Special Interest Group

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    Comment 8 May 2023
    After roughly a decade of development video essays are now accepted forms for teaching, assessing and research in the wider film and media community. Groups, both ad-hoc and more formalised, now exist in Europe, the UK and North America, and there are regular events, cfp’s, debates and discussions with most...
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    Estelle

    Response from Missy Molloy

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    Comment 1 September 2022
    Missy Molloy  Victoria University of Wellington Adrian Martin’s statement on the challenges facing screen studies at present provides a useful recap of the strange condition our field finds itself in alongside academia at large. Although not particularly oriented to an Antipodean context, it itemises noteworthy characteristics of the crisis (a...
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    Estelle

    Response from Stuart Richards

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    Comment 1 September 2022
    Stuart Richards  The University of South Australia ‘A Hopeful Turn’ As with all areas of academia, Screen Studies has had its own challenges over the last few years that could constitute an emergency. As Adrian Martin notes in his conclusion, there is a distinction between a crisis and an emergency....
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    Estelle

    Provocation from Adrian Martin

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    Comment 1 September 2022
    Adrian Martin Independent Scholar, Adjunct Monash University ‘I Write to You From a Far-Off Country …’ It seems to me that the situation of the pandemic actually proves the opposite of what some people try to demonstrate, namely this omnipresence of a security power controlling minds and bodies. What the...
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    Estelle

    UPCOMING CONFERENCE: The Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAAANZ), in association with Massey University, present: The Materials of Screen Media

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    Comment 21 July 2022
    30 November – 2 December 2022 “Materialism,” “materials,” “materiality,” “matter”: for scholars in screen and media studies, is there anything these terms can’t do? They shape our common critical vernacular, from references to “source material” to discussion of “subject matter.” They also sustain a range of approaches to screen media—from...
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    Estelle

    Call for Papers: Third Biennial Conference of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ)

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    Comment 15 January 2020
    SCREEN FUTURES: Media, Concepts, Worlds—Third Biennial Conference of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) Hosted by the University of Sydney Film Studies Program, Department of Art History, School of Literature, Art and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences       Keynote speakers confirmed...
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    Extended Call for Papers: Second Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (ssaaanz) conference, ‘The Uses of Cinema: Film, Television, Screen’, June 4, 2018

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    Comment 23 April 2018
    Location: School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Melbourne November 21–23, 2018 In recent years film and television scholarship has seen a renewed focus on the uses of cinema – that is, on educational, instructional, non-theatrical, client-sponsored and government-sponsored filmmaking – in collections such as Films That Work (Hediger and Vonderau, 2009), Useful Cinema (Acland...
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    Call For Papers: Inaugural SSAAANZ conference issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema

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    Comment 9 June 2017
      Edited by Mark Ryan (QUT) and Constantine Verevis (Monash University) This is a call for papers for a special issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema (SiAC) devoted to themes arising from the inaugural Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) Conference, Sea Change: Transforming Industries, Screens, Texts, which took place in...
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