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Joss Whedon’s character archetypes: The Avengers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Thomas Caldwell , May 2, 2012 • 6 Comments

In The Avengers, writer/director Joss Whedon has inherited a series of Marvel characters who have been established over five preceding films, not to mention a long legacy of comic book appearances. The films that introduced these characters have been pretty good, but nothing remarkable for a casual … Read more »

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Column: Film and TV

The book is never better than the film

by Thomas Caldwell , March 21, 2012 • 9 Comments

Hearing somebody say ‘The book is always better than the film’ is like fingernails down a blackboard to me. This ill-informed yet common cliché about the supposed superiority of literary texts over visual texts is highly reductive and suggests that a comparison can be made between two … Read more »

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Column: Film and TV

Glamour over grit at the AACTA Awards Ceremony

by Thomas Caldwell , February 7, 2012 • 1 Comment

On Tuesday 31 January 2012 the first Samsung Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) award ceremony was broadcast on Channel 9 from the Sydney Opera House. The AACTA Awards have replaced the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards in an admirable attempt by the AFI to … Read more »

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