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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Really excited to share the collection of contributions we have coming at Pop Junctions for #EMMYSWATCH2025. We start off with a great 2-part interview with the creators of the podcast We Disrupt this Broadcast, with fellow associate editor Lauren Alexandra Sowa.

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

WWE Raw launched on Netflix yesterday with this opener. It reinforces a point that has been central to WWE’s revival: that pro wrestling is a distinct art form with its own histories, and formal conventions in storytelling and style. A great way to begin the Netflix era.

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FIRST LOOK: Cold Open for the Monday Night Raw on Netflix premiere

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I have found myself writing a bit about toys this year, after starting the year with a piece on Barbie and now ending it with this one on Marvel Legends action figures. In this post I reflect on my own experience as an action figure collector and the practice of displaying.

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Pop Junctions @popjunctions.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Pop Junctions is now on Bluesky. We’re looking forward to sharing forthcoming blog content and revisiting previous highlights. Formerly Confessions of an Aca-Fan by Henry Jenkins, Pop Junctions is now coordinated by a collective editorial team from across the globe.

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Proud to share my newest publication, co-authored with Liam Burke and Jessica Balanzategui: “Cine-mapping: Charting the Use of Scripted Spaces in Screen Tourism,” published in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Does the Australian film industry have a problem with the horror genre? Australia has produced globally successful horror films, such as THE BABADOOK (2014) and TALK TO ME (2022), but filmmaker Maria Tran – director of MIDNIGHT NEVER SLEEPS (2024) – says the local industry still resists the genre.

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Genre Demands: Why Australia Isn’t Matching Action and Horror’s Global Appeal

This write up might land me in a little heat with the Australian film industry.

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Perfect cinema space for a 50th anniversary screening of Young Frankenstein at the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace.

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

For info about my research and publications, check out my website Assembled Illusions at taralomax.com. I have work on a range of topics related to contemporary Hollywood entertainment, blockbuster franchising and multiplatform storytelling, including on Star Wars and Marvel (plus more)

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We celebrated the end of a 2-year journey for our MA Screen students this past week and staff shared parting words and a fav film. I couldn’t go past the twins of May 25: MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) and STAR WARS (1977). Together these films represent my love of the New Hollywood era.

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Delighted to see that birds are a thing on here, so here’s a series of my favourite local inner Sydney birds.

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Tara Lomax @taralomax.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Been inactive on that ‘other platform’ for a while, mostly since it developed a strange ‘x’ factor, so curious to see how this migration pans out. Interested in conversations about screen media, filmmaking, entertainment, academic research and higher education.

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