“A long time ago….”: The Persistence and Longevity of ‘Star Wars’ at 45 Tara Lomax October 2022 Feature Articles This article was peer reviewed This year Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) commemorated its 45th anniversary. This anniversary recognises the passage of time since its theatrical premiere at Grauman’s Chinese The...
The Franchise Era: Blockbuster Hollywood in the 2010s…and Beyond Tara Lomax October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s It is July 2019 and Avengers: Endgame (Joe and Anthony Russo, 2019) – a flagship release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise – has just surpassed Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) as the highest-grossin...
“Too Busy Building a World to Tell a Story”: Between World-Building and Storytelling in the Cleverman Storyworld Tara Lomax December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes The notion of storyworlds – that is, “worlds provoked by narratives” – is not new to storytelling or narratology; even so, transmedia storytelling and media convergence have enabled more ways of understanding t...
