http://hdl.handle.net/10453/97 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:22:11 GMT 2013-05-19T20:22:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19025 Dead but still/moving the slide show and documentary, a space between photography and cinema Taylor Andrew From magic lantern shows to PowerPoint presentations, the slide show has cast a long shadow on documentary film. In the 1880s the New York Police reporter, Jacob Riis, barnstormed America with magic lantern images of urban poverty, hoping to rouse sympathies and eventual relief for the city's underclass. In mid 2006, An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary woven around Al Gore's slide show PowerPoint presentation, screened to audiences around the world. This article examines links between the slide show and documentary. It argues that this connection is illuminating in thinking about the relationship between stillness, movement, cinema and photography. It also argues that a characteristic of slide show documentaries is their preoccupation with time, memory, mortality and death. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19025 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19026 Australian creative non-fiction: Perspectives and opinions Joseph Sue Figures confirm that Australians avidly read their creative non-fiction. But most would be unable to name the genre; it is not as widely defined or discussed in Australia as it is in the USA and UK, where it is actively debated and anthologised. This paper goes to the heart of the genre in Australia, investigating through narrative interview why there is not more of an Australian voice in this international debate. It examines the perspectives and views of twelve of the country's most widely read, awarded and respected creative non-fiction authors, drawing them into the discussion. There appears a wide spread disinterest from those who write creative non-fiction in this country to label it as such. But a disinterest in categorisation does not discredit the validity of the writing - indeed, this disinterest lends itself to an idiosyncratic character, or one of many 'different national manifestations' around the world. The writings of creative non-fiction authors in Australia are an integral part of a social history, and as such must be studied and collated as our own 'cultural pathway'. The international debate is an important one to take part in, as a collective impetus grows to legitimise the genre as a collection of differing national cultural assets. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19026 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19028 Scenario art as a decision-making tool to facilitate sustainable futures: The case for minerals and mining in Australia Lederwasch Aleta Scenario Art (visual representations of a future scenario, used to enhance decision-making processes) is offered as a new tool to facilitate a transition to sustainable futures. The paper acknowledges recent evaluations of current futures methods (methods for long-term decision making and strategy development that involve consideration of multiple future circumstances), which have found that the futures field is not having the transformative influence expected. It is argued that to have a transformative influence, world views need to be drawn out and examined. An analysis of the results of a workshop (Vision 2040) that tested the application of Scenario Art, alongside art and neurological theory, is used to explore the relationship between Scenario Art, neurological processes, and the implications of these neurological processes in the context of decision-making processes. Vision 2040 utilized a deliberative process and aimed to establish a shared vision and strategy for the future of the mining and minerals industry in Australia. The workshop involved a range of futures methods which provided an opportunity for mining stakeholders to explore how the mining and minerals industry in Australia can deliver long-term national benefit. This paper focuses on the results of applying Scenario Art at this workshop which support that Scenario Art increases a person's level of empathy, creativity, responsiveness to risk, imagination and willingness to consider alternative perspectives. In the context of developing a shared vision, it was found that this increased a person¿s ability to recognise strategies and actions that would benefit multiple stakeholders and to recognise shared and conflicting ideas, values and perspectives for a preferred future. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19028 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19027 Recounting Traumatic Secrets: Empathy and the Literary Journalist Joseph Sue The journalism industry has only recently begun to embrace reflective practice in response to trauma in journalists, but it substantially ignores empathy. This article examines six narratives of trauma subjects from the manuscript Speaking Secrets. Framing the subjectsâ¿¿ recounts as a form of advocacy journalism, particular focus is given to the role of empathy in eliciting and retelling trauma stories, and its effects on the journalist. This article argues for greater discussion of empathy as an ethical tool of journalism within the industry and academy, and a remedy to public distrust, rather than a notion regarded by most as antithetical. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19027 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z