Radha O'Meara

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’,..

Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television

Radha O'Meara

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

Ungrounded (A Short Story)

R O'Meara

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2017

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..

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..

Bubble (2015): The Network Society

R O'MEARA

Book Chapter  |  2015