Radha O'Meara

Disability and Screen Work in Australia: Report for Industry 2023

Radha O'Meara, Laura Dunstan, Anna Debinski, Catherine Ryan

Report  |  2023

Disability is a key vector of inequality in Australian society. The screen industry has the potential to create meaningful change,..

Breakout Women: Introduction to TV Transformations, Gender and Transgression

Radha O'Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor, Craig Batty

Book Chapter  |  2022

This book explores Australian TV dramas about women in prison, offering a range of scholarly and industry perspectives.

Scriptwriting on the Inside: The Streamlined System of Prisoner and the Collaborative Community of Wentworth

Radha O'Meara

Book Chapter  |  2022

An examination of industrialized TV production practice for Prisoner (1979– 86) and Wentworth (2013– 21) reveals some of the intri..

TV Transformations and Transgressive Women From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth

Book  |  2022

This book explores Australian TV dramas about women in prison, offering a range of scholarly and industry perspectives.

Dog Park

Radha O'Meara, Eloise Grills

Original Creative Work  |  2021

Synopsis She is half-asleep when she dresses to walk her dogs to the local park in the dim morning light. Wandering together throu..

Negotiating television authorship and gendering creative identity: Vicki Madden as Australian showrunner

Radha O'Meara

Book Chapter  |  2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development provides the first comprehensive overview of international script development practice..

How Government Institutions Shape Script Development: Comparative Case Studies of Screen Australia and the Danish Film Institute

Radha O'Meara, Cath Moore

Book Chapter  |  2020

This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

From the Stony Ground Up: The unique Affordances of the Gaol as "Hub" for Transgressive Female Representations in Women-in-Prison Dramas

Radha O'Meara, Stayci Taylor, Tessa Dwyer, Craig Batty

Book Chapter  |  2020

In this handbook, the editors bring together a huge breadth of disparate issues including women in prison, the view from ‘inside’,..

On the Inside: 40 Years of Prisoner (Cell Block H) at the St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne

Radha O'Meara, Stayci Taylor, Tessa Dwyer, Craig Batty

Journal article  |  2019  |  Critical Studies in Television

On June 25 a capacity crowd met at the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne – the city that is the home of iconic Australian television..

Inside the story: writing the powerful female world of Wentworth

Radha O'Meara, Craig Batty, Stayci Taylor, Tessa Dwyer

Media  |  2019

Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. One o..