Richard Maltby

Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies. He moved to Flinders from the UK, where he established the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter, before becoming Research Professor in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Hollywood Cinema and Harmless Entertainment: Hollywood and the Ideology of Consensus, as well as numerous articles on American cinema and popular culture. He is currently working on a history of regulation and the politics of Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, to be called Reforming the Movies: the Governance of the American Cinema, 1908-1939.

Research interests

Richard Maltby's research interests are centred on the cultural and industrial history of Hollywood. Together with Ruth Vasey, he has held a Large Australian Research Council Grant for a project entitled Reforming the Movies: A Political History of the American Cinema, 1908-1940. With Mike Walsh, Kate Bowles (University of Wollongong) and Deb Verhoeven (RMIT), he held an ARC Discovery Grant for a project called Regional Markets and Local Audiences: a History of Australian Cinema Consumption, and the same team, together with Jill Julius Matthews (ANY) and Colin Arrowsmith (RMIT) currently have an ARC Discovery Project for a related project called Mapping the Movies: the Changing Nature of Australia’s Cinema Circuits and their Audiences 1956-1984. Professor Maltby has co-convened three major international conferences on the history of Hollywood’s audiences, and co-edited five books on the subject, the most recent being Going to the Movies: The Social Experience of Hollywood Cinema, published in 2007.

Publications

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