Radha O'Meara

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

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..

Review of Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches

R O'MEARA

Journal article  |  2013  |  Senses of Cinema

While his guitar gently weeps: Memory, documentary and the music biopic

R O'Meara, CS Stevens

Journal article  |  2012  |  The Soundtrack

In George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011), Martin Scorsese creates a homage not only to the ‘great man’, but also to..

The "Missing Years": How Local Programming Ruptured "Days of Our Lives" in Australia

R O'MEARA

Book Chapter  |  2012

The book contains contributions from established soap scholars such as Robert C. Allen, Louise Spence, Nancy Baym, and Horace Newc..

"I Will Try Harder to Merge the Worlds": Expanding Narrative and Space in Gilmore Girls

R O'Meara

Book Chapter  |  2010