title: Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985 [Book Review]

authors: Mackness, Kate

subjects: Science & Technology

abstract: This article reviews the book: "Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985", edited by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams and Ronald Jones, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2018, 318 pp., $44.99 paperback version, ISBN 9780522871661

text: Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985 [Book Review] This article reviews the book: "Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985", edited by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams and Ronald Jones, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2018, 318 pp., $44.99 paperback version, ISBN 9780522871661

year: 2021

title: 'Party Season': A screenplay-based inquiry into filming and judgment, with accompanying essay

authors: Shepherd, Barrett James

subjects: screenplay

abstract: Party Season is about sex and speech and employs some of the conventions of the porn film. Apparently inconsequential 'filler' scenes and dialogue link the pay-off scenes of vividly depicted sex. Except that, in Party Season, this relationship is gradually reversed - the scenes of excessive behaviour becoming 'filler' scenes linking the pay-off moments, the latter often embedded in deliberately extended 'unrealistic' dialogue. A key component of this as a piece of inquiry-based practice is the exploration of this altering balance and of how action and dialogue can function to produce such a reversal of conventionality. The intention with the accompanying essay is to sustain a progressive interweaving of reflective commentary and analytical vignettes. There is also an intended symmetry here - an 'excessive' essay (long, without conventional subheadings, breaks, etc.) will sit alongside the 'excessive' screenplay as its twin of sorts, a different style of invention. The essay is to speech what the screenplay is to sex.

text: 'Party Season': A screenplay-based inquiry into filming and judgment, with accompanying essay Party Season is about sex and speech and employs some of the conventions of the porn film. Apparently inconsequential 'filler' scenes and dialogue link the pay-off scenes of vividly depicted sex. Except that, in Party Season, this relationship is gradually reversed - the scenes of excessive behaviour becoming 'filler' scenes linking the pay-off moments, the latter often embedded in deliberately extended 'unrealistic' dialogue. A key component of this as a piece of inquiry-based practice is the exploration of this altering balance and of how action and dialogue can function to produce such a reversal of conventionality. The intention with the accompanying essay is to sustain a progressive interweaving of reflective commentary and analytical vignettes. There is also an intended symmetry here - an 'excessive' essay (long, without conventional subheadings, breaks, etc.) will sit alongside the 'excessive' screenplay as its twin of sorts, a different style of invention. The essay is to speech what the screenplay is to sex.

year: 2007

title: The Digital Divide in New Zealand: The position of Māori and Pacific peoples

authors: Gibson, John

subjects: Māori digital access

abstract: Information and communication technology plays an ever-growing role in economic, political and social life and those who are unable to access such technologies are increasingly disadvantaged. Hence, what has come to be known as the ‘digital divide’ is of considerable significance. Here, indicators of that divide as it affects Māori and Pacific Islands peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand are presented and discussed.

text: The Digital Divide in New Zealand: The position of Māori and Pacific peoples Information and communication technology plays an ever-growing role in economic, political and social life and those who are unable to access such technologies are increasingly disadvantaged. Hence, what has come to be known as the ‘digital divide’ is of considerable significance. Here, indicators of that divide as it affects Māori and Pacific Islands peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand are presented and discussed.

year: 2002-09