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Dr

Radha O'Meara

Lecturer In Creative Writing
Culture And Communication
Film
Screenwriting
television
narrative
globalisation
arts & humanities
film, radio & television
film, radio, television
seriality
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Radha O'Meara

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Screen Studies
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Dr. Radha O'Meara has been Lecturer in Screenwriting in the School of Culture and Communication since 2015. Radha has created fiction and non-fiction for film, video, television and new media.

She has studied in Australia, the USA and Germany and taught at universities in Australia and New Zealand.

Radha combines creative practice in screenwriting with research into screen cultures, screen industries and screen aesthetics. Her critical research focuses on serial narrative in contemporary film and television. She has published on soap operas, superheroes and cat videos.

Radha teaches Writing for Screen (CWRI20009), Advanced Screenwriting (CWRI30014) and Serial Storytelling (CWRI40017).
Radha coordinates the Masters of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing with Dr. Odette Kelada.
Radha supervises research higher degree students studying topics including: female antiheroines, cannibalism on screen, telefantasy and the mystery film genre.

Notable publications:
Radha O'Meara, "Changing the Way We Think About Character Change in Episodic Series Television" Journal of Screenwriting 6.2, 2015.
Radha O'Meara, "Sexism from Page to Screen: How Hollywood Screenplays Inscribe Gender" Networking Knowledge 10.2, 2017.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Radha O'Meara.

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Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television

Radha O'Meara

Journal article  |  2018  |  Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies

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Transmedia Theory’s Author Discourse and Its Limitations

R O'Meara, A Bevan

Journal article  |  2018  |  M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture

As a scholarly discourse, transmedia storytelling relies heavily on conservative constructions of authorship that laud corporate a..

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Script development as a 'wicked problem'

Craig Batty, Radha O'MEARA, Stayci Taylor, Hester Joyce, Philippa Burne, Noel Maloney, Mark Poole, Marilyn Tofler

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Screenwriting

Both a process and a set of products, influenced by policy as well as people, and incorporating objective agendas at the same time..

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Inventing Rituals: Cultural Politics in Zhang Yimou’s Historical Films

R O'Meara

Journal article  |  2018  |  Senses of Cinema

Zhang Yimou’s films Raise the Red Lantern (1991) and Judou (1990) were widely criticised for historical misrepresentation, because..

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Twin Peaks: Hyperconscious Histories of Mediation

W Haslem, R O'Meara, J Beckett

Journal article  |  2017  |  Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media

David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) creates a sophisticated hyperconscious web that intersects televisual and cinematic te..

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Ungrounded (A Short Story)

R O'Meara

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2017

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Sexism from Page to Screen: How Hollywood Screenplays Inscribe Sexism

R O'Meara

Journal article  |  2017  |  Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network

This article analyses how characters are described in recent Hollywood screenplays, and notes that female characters are routinely..

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Changing the way we think about character change in episodic television series

R O'MEARA

Journal article  |  2015  |  Journal of Screenwriting

Regular characters in episodic television series do not change, develop or transform. At least this is the way these characters ar..

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Bubble (2015): The Network Society

R O'MEARA

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Do Cats Know They Rule YouTube? Surveillance and the Pleasures of Cat Videos

R O'MEARA

Journal article  |  2014  |  M/C Journal

Did you see the videos where the cat jumps in the box, attacks the printer or tries to leap from the snowy car? As the availabilit..

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Keyword Analysis

Film, Television and Digital Media
Communication
Expanding Knowledge
Cultural Studies
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Arts and Leisure
Communication and Media Studies

News

Displaying the 3 most recent news articles by Radha O'Meara.

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Inside the story: writing the powerful female world of Wentworth

Radha O'Meara

July 11, 2019
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How to reduce sexism in screenplays

Radha O'Meara

July 3, 2017
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Sexist screen representations of women start in the script

Radha O'Meara

February 22, 2016

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Credentials

Positions

Positions

Lecturer In Creative Writing

Culture And Communication

Education

Education

PhD in Screen Studies

University of Melbourne

Post Graduate Diploma (Film and Television)

Victorian College of the Arts

Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Cinema Studies)

La Trobe University

Bachelor of Arts

University of Melbourne

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