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Author Liam Burke

Liam Burke

Liam Burke is a senior lecturer and the coordinator of the Cinema and Screen Studies major at Swinburne University of Technology. Liam has published widely on comic books and adaptation. His next book, the edited collection The Superhero Symbol (with Ian Gordon and Angela Ndalianis), will be published by Rutgers University Press in 2019. Liam is a chief investigator of the Australian Research Council funded project Superheroes & Me.

The Marvel Method: How Marvel dominated franchising filmmaking

Liam Burke
October 2019
This is what defined cinema in the 2010s
In 2009 Avatar (Cameron) became the highest grossing film of all-time at the global box office. In the same year the Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment, which had only recently clawed its way ba...

Cleverman and Australian Superheroes (Introduction)

Angela Ndalianis and Liam Burke
December 2018
Cleverman and Australian Superheroes
It was early 2016 when the buzz started to build. Stories began to appear on the news and social media about the airing of the new television series Cleverman. There was a great sense that something unique was ...

We Need Another Hero: The Incompatibility of Superheroes and Australia

Liam Burke
December 2018
Cleverman and Australian Superheroes
Australia loves superheroes. In 2018, the four highest grossing films at the Australian box office were superhero movies, Melbourne hosted the interactive exhibition Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N., while the city’s Do...

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