Buzzworthy/Award Film Screenplays Appear Online

Last week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter contains the first "For Your Consideration" ads, as it is the start of the film screening/nomination process. And it's not just the Academy Awards that the film studios are advertising to. It's also the Director's Guild, the Cinematography Guild and all of the others.

So the November 14 issue was wrapped with the ad for "How to Train Your Dragon 2" which contains this URL:  http://dwaawards.com/

Another ad for "The BoxTrolls" urges readers to go to:  www.FocusGuilds2014.com
(The screenplays for "Theory of Everything", "BoxTrolls" ,"Kills The Messenger:", "Bad Words", and "Wish I Was There" can be found there)

Speaking of writing, THR starts their season of roundtable discussions/videos in this issue with writers:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/writer-roundtable-chris-rock-...

 

This issue also features a the making of featured on "The Imitation Game"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/making-imitation-game-748041

It’s that time of year again when studios make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season. As in years past,GoIntoTheStory is tracking them and posting links as they become available.

Current total of 2014 scripts for download: 7.

Newly added script in bold below:

Get On Up (Universal Pictures)

Gone Girl (20th Century Fox)

How To Train Your Dragon 2 (DreamWorks Animation)

St. Vincent (The Weinstein Company)

The Boxtrolls (Focus Features)

The Fault In Our Stars (20th Century Fox)

The Theory of Everything (Focus Features)

Studios also make production notes available:

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Foxcatcher

Get On Up

Magic in the Moonlight

Whiplash

Bring History, Journalism and the First Amendment to Life

The Newseum in Washington, D.C., now offers a Digital Classroom with high-quality, standards-based, document-driven instruction. Focused on historical inquiry, media literacy, critical thinking, document analysis and civic engagement, Newseum Education’s Digital Classroom features a wide variety of engaging interactive content for middle school through college teaching and learning. A library of 12 captioned and beautifully produced video lessons, complete with viewing guides, essential questions and lesson plans, focus on critical media literacy issues such as Bias, Getting It Right (accuracy in media), What’s Newsand Sources. Historical video lessons cover such topics as The Berlin Wall and the Press, The Press and the Civil Rights Movement, Watergate and 45 Words (the First Amendment). Currently, three comprehensive modules aggregate a wealth of resources and activities. The latest addition, Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less, investigates the suffragists’ pioneering use of the free press and the other First Amendment freedoms. Students explore more than 250 primary sources in three interactives. Using aninteractive timeline and the map of persuasive materials, they see how and why movement participants dared to challenge the status quo. Then they discover their legacy in contemporary civil rights issues and build their own case for change today. A library of primary sources connects to each of the modules: 150 documents on Women’s Rights, Blood and Ink: 30 Historic Front Pages from the Civil War andEmancipation Proclamation Front Pages. Documents may be downloaded freely as full-sized PDFs to facilitate examination by students. Activities connect to a variety of standards documents in language arts and social studies from middle school through high school.

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CFP: News Literacy- Special Issue of Journalism Education

Call for Papers:

Exploring News Literacy:

Preparing future journalists—and citizens—for engagement in global digital culture

Special Issue of Journalism Education

Guest editors:

Paul Mihailidis, Emerson College, Boston, USA

Stephanie Craft, University of Illinois, USA

This special issue of Journalism Education is devoted to the emerging field of news literacy. It aims to provide new understanding, approaches, and foundations for how we understand the competencies that future journalists – professionals and citizens alike -- need to effectively report news stories that demand attention in digital culture today.

Contributions to this special issue will identify and critique a range of factors that are facing journalism and media educators. In recognizing the pedagogical challenges engendered by the destabilization of traditional models for news, this issue calls for theoretical treatments of the term ‘news literacy’ as a productive basis for rethinking media literacy and public engagement in civic life.

Research examining news literacy in primary, secondary or higher education contexts is welcome. Possible topics include:

• How best to define news literacy?
• News literacy as a response to a destabilizing industry
• Evolving forms and practices of news media pedagogy
• Students’ uses of social media for engagement with news
• News literacy in connective networks and sharing culture
• Training citizen journalists
• Curation as news pedagogy
• Storytelling as news literacy
• Teaching reporting in an “everything is free” culture
• How best to keep up with the changing demands for teaching about news and journalism?
• Innovation and experimentation in news education in digital culture
• Ethical responsibilities in producing, curating, disseminating and consuming news

Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 250 words by email to Paul Mihailidis (paul_mihailidis@emerson.edu). Following peer-review, a selection of authors will be invited to submit a full paper in accordance with the journal’s ‘Instructions for authors.’ Please note acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will be put though the journal’s peer review process.

Timeline

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2014; deadline for submission of full papers: 1 April 2015. Final revised papers due: 15 June 2015. Publication: Volume 9, Number 4 (September 2015).

Guest Editors

Paul Mihailidis is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the school of communication at Emerson College and Associate Director of Emerson’s Engagement Lab. He also Directs the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. He newest book is titled Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen: Youth, Engagement and Participation in Digital Culture (Peter Lang, 2014).

Stephanie Craft’s is an Associate Professor of Journalism in the College of Media at the University of Illinois. Her research, focusing on news literacy, press practices and journalism ethics, has appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Communication Law & Policy, Mass Communication & Society, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, and Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. With Charles Davis, she is author of the textbook Principles of American Journalism, published by Routledge. Before earning a PhD, Craft worked as a newspaper journalist in California, Washington and Arkansas.

Editorial Contact

Paul Mihailidis

Emerson College

120 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02116

email: paul_mihailidis@emerson.edu

tel: +001(978)761-2412

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