Author Archives: phill.taylor
Week Nine – Exam Preparation
Hi everyone. Please see below documents in support of the seminar tomorrow evening, Tuesday 27th March. These documents are also excellent t [...]
Week Eight – Tutorial Highlights
Check out the work below, from Cindy, on the 80s zeitgeist, context and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It gives an excellent example of how [...]
Week Six – Some Kind of Wonderful
Hi everyone, Below are notes I took this morning for Some Kind of Wonderful. Talking with some students this morning who wanted to know how [...]
Week Six – One for the PARENTS!!
Dear parents, It’s been a while since we last spoke. But, thank you to the parents who responded to my last post for parents. This one [...]
Week Six: Speaking for a Generation
Hi everyone, Attached, below, are three introductions that discuss John Hughes’s films and the notion that his work defines a shift in [...]
Week Five – Tutorial Highlights
Some great handouts here: The first is from Abbie, which accompanied a cracking tutorial on Context, Relevance and Blackboard Jungle. Abbie& [...]
Week Five: Genre Over Time
Hi everyone, attached below is an essay based on our work yesterday in class and how the teen film genre can be used to answer questions abo [...]
Week Four – Where Were You in ’62?
Read and annotate the following articles. Scan the results and add to your personal blog. American Graffiti Read the Introduction and Chapte [...]
Week Four – California, New York and the London Docks
Gidget, West Side Story, and To Sir With Love arise during a period of turmoil, when old ways and grand narratives about gender, race and cl [...]
Week Four – Student Handouts
First to go, Tahlia delivered a cracking start to the film tutorial series this term . . . and on the day after the Swimming Carnival. Well [...]
Week Four: Thoughts on the Golden Era of Teenpics
Read the following documents and, as your teacher takes you through it, make notes in your files: [...]
