Jane Stadler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film and Ethics and co-author with Michael O'Shaughnessy of Media and Society. Kelly McWilliam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She is author of When Carrie Met Sally: Lesbian Romantic Comedies and co-editor with John Hartley of Story Circle: Digital Storytelling around the World.

'Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.' - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking on both sides of the screen1 By design: Art direction and mise en sc ne construction2 Cinematography: Writing in light and movement3 The invisible magic of sound4 At the edge of the cut: Editing from continuity to montage5 Plotting and planning: Storytelling and reviewing techniques6 Screen narratives7 Reality and realism: Seeing is believing8 Genre: Something new based on something familiar'9 Star struck: Fandom and the discourse of celebrity10 Skating the edge: Cult media and the (inter)active audience11 The crowded screen: Transcultural influences and new directions in visual cultureGlossaryBibliographyFilm creditsGame creditsTelevision credits

Jane Stadler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film and Ethics and co-author with Michael O'Shaughnessy of Media and Society. Kelly McWilliam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology. She is author of When Carrie Met Sally: Lesbian Romantic Comedies and co-editor with John Hartley of Story Circle: Digital Storytelling around the World.

'Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.' - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking on both sides of the screen1 By design: Art direction and mise en sc ne construction2 Cinematography: Writing in light and movement3 The invisible magic of sound4 At the edge of the cut: Editing from continuity to montage5 Plotting and planning: Storytelling and reviewing techniques6 Screen narratives7 Reality and realism: Seeing is believing8 Genre: Something new based on something familiar'9 Star struck: Fandom and the discourse of celebrity10 Skating the edge: Cult media and the (inter)active audience11 The crowded screen: Transcultural influences and new directions in visual cultureGlossaryBibliographyFilm creditsGame creditsTelevision credits