Author Tara Lomax

Tara Lomax

Tara Lomax is a sessional lecturer in Film and TV at the VCA and a sessional tutor in cinema studies at RMIT University. She is currently completing a PhD in screen studies at The University of Melbourne, with her thesis examining the transtextual poetics of franchise cinema. She has published on the Star Wars and Hannibal franchises, with forthcoming publications on seriality and horror, supervillainy, and superhero industries.

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...