Cleverman and Australian Superheroes (Introduction) Angela Ndalianis and Liam Burke December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes It was early 2016 when the buzz started to build. Stories began to appear on the news and social media about the airing of the new television series C...
We Need Another Hero: The Incompatibility of Superheroes and Australia Liam Burke December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes Australia loves superheroes. In 2018, the four highest grossing films at the Australian box office were superhero movies, Melbourne hosted the interac...
Dreamtime Mutants and Urban Vigilantes: Aboriginal Superheroes in American Comics Kevin Patrick December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes The television series Cleverman has been hailed for its sympathetic and complex portrayal of Aboriginal people, as well as for its trenchant commentar...
Visualising Life: Cleverman and the Vitalist Body Paul Atkinson December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes The ABC series Cleverman is notable for the introduction of an Indigenous superhero, the Cleverman, and a race of superhumans, the Hairypeople. It als...
“Too Busy Building a World to Tell a Story”: Between World-Building and Storytelling in the Cleverman Storyworld Tara Lomax December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes The notion of storyworlds – that is, “worlds provoked by narratives” – is not new to storytelling or narratology; even so, transmedia storytelling and...
