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...
