Cinema & Screen Studies Associate Professor @Swinburne (wburke@swin.edu.au), and author of The Comic Book Film Adaptation goo.gl/s968Vs Views are my own
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Liam Burke retweeted
4 Nov 2024
Look for an extended preview of the new season of @RememberThisPod on December 10 wherever you get your podcasts. Make sure you're subscribed to get this and all new episodes of YMRT as soon as they drop!
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Liam Burke retweeted
24 Oct 2024
š„³BIG NEWS!š„³
The CFP for our 2025 @adaptstudies conference is now LIVE!!! We'll be heading to Istanbul, TĆ¼rkiye for next year's annual conference, which will be centred on theme of "Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth". Read the full call on our website:
adaptation.uk.com/cfp-2025-aā¦
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5 Oct 2024
Vulture Cinematrix No. 193: Oct 5, 2024
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27 Sep 2024
Before Potter and Downton most millennials knew Maggie Smith as the elderly Wendy opposite Robin Williamās Peter Pan in Spielbergās Hook. Her early scenes were so strong that everything else in the film seemed to pale by comparison. #RIPMaggieSmith youtu.be/fwgz_87qelw?si=07Lcā¦
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10 Sep 2024
One of the few pieces of original comic art I own is this final group page of Astonishing X-Men, in which Cassaday effortlessly captured the distinct personalities and capped off one of the all-time X-Men comics. #RIPJohnCassaday
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Liam Burke retweeted
šÆNEW OPPORTUNITYšÆ
Our flagship journal, Adaptation @OUPAcademic, is seeking expressions of interest for a Media Reviews Editor to replace the Film Reviews Editor. EoIs are due by 1/10/24. Read more at our website: adaptation.uk.com/eoi-for-meā¦
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5 Sep 2024
Is Greta Gerwigās #Barbie an adaptation? I make the argument for the film to be recognised as an adaptation in this new contribution to the Adaptation journal academic.oup.com/adaptation/ā¦
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Liam Burke retweeted
2 Aug 2024
My book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is now available to pre-order from @upmiss ! It boasts spectacular cover art by the amazing @portolandia, so please feel free to judge this book by its cover! Find out more and order here: upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/Tā¦
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Liam Burke retweeted
23 Jul 2024
Get in the Ring with @Swinburne and @ACMI. Read all about how Swinburne students have curated a season of Wrestling movies for ACMI streaming service Cinema 3 swinburne.edu.au/news/2024/0ā¦
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26 Jun 2024
#Here may end up being a mess, but after a long absence it's great to see Zemeckis in experimental mode again taking inspiration from the brilliant comic.
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25 Jun 2024
#RedOne is peak algorithm filmmaking: Something for everyone, but I canāt think of a single real person who would want to watch it.
25 Jun 2024
First trailer for āRED ONEā, starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans and J.K. Simmons
In theaters on November 15.
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13 Jun 2024
From They Live! to The Iron Claw this is an amazing season of wrestling movies on @ACMI Cinema 3 curated by our @swinburne Screen Studies students!
13 Jun 2024
Wresting with Reality! An amazing season of wrestling movies curated by our 2024 Movie Mogul student winners are now available to stream @ACMI Cinema 3. If you donāt see them @Krackerbastard will āconfiscate your eyeballsā. cinema3.acmi.net.au/page/movā¦
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7 Jun 2024
On my way home to Australia after back-to-back conferences in Dublin and Szczecin. Thanks to the organisers of #SSXR @tcddublin and @2024AAS for two great events (now I need to write those papers)!
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Liam Burke retweeted
28 May 2024
What a great Screen Studies semester, packed with field trips, sold-out @Lido trivia, guest sessions with @letterboxd EIC Gemma Gracewood, our seminar series, and ending with students pitching their streaming seasons @ACMI, look out for Wrestling with Reality on Cinema 3 soon!
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29 May 2023
In my first-year @ScreenSwin unit students select the weekly screenings from a range of options. This was what they picked in 2023.
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17 May 2024
In my first-year @ScreenSwin unit students select the weekly screenings from a range of options. This was what they picked in 2024. @Swinburne
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12 May 2024
Roger Corman was so prolific, inventive and influential that he manages to appear in nearly every Screen Studies unit I teach (this week itās Teen Movies). I canāt imagine thatāll ever change. #RIPRogerCorman
Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98 variety.com/2024/film/news/rā¦
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29 Apr 2024
Any home bakers out there have experiences of trying to make a cake based on a favourite character. Whether it was a triumph or failure Iām looking to talk to people about their baking inspiration for a piece Iām writing about Adaptation in the Kitchen. DM if interested. Thanks!
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