Professor Richard Rushton
Professor in Film StudiesCurrent Teaching
I currently teach on the following modules:
LICA150: Introduction to Film
LICA252: Film Theory
LICA255: European New Wave Cinema
LICA357: Movie Musicals
LICA416: Cinema and History
Research Interests
My research focuses on the intersection between theory, culture and the image, with a particular focus on film.
Theatricality and the Arts: Film, Theatre, Art (co-edited with Andrew Quick), Edinburgh University Press, 2024 - https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-theatricality-and-the-arts.html
Modern European Cinema and Love - Manchester University Press, 2023: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149435/
Deleuze and Lola Montès - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/deleuze-and-lola-montes-9781501345760/
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema(Palgrave Macmillan 2013) - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230244580
Cinema After Deleuze(Continuum 2012) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cinema-after-deleuze-9780826438928/
The Reality of Film(Manchester University Press 2011) - https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719082689/
What is Film Theory?(Open University Press / McGraw-Hill 2010) - co-written by Gary Bettinson - https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Film-Theory-Richard-Rushton/dp/0335234232
See also:
On Theatricality, a special issue of the journal Performance Research - https://www.performance-research.org/current-issue.php
PhD Supervision Interests
Film theory
Film and philosophy
Hollywood cinema
Romantic comedy
French film
Politics and film
IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2026
Research
Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond
04/06/2019 → 28/10/2022
Research
LICA Research Seminar: "Film & Philosophy: Catherine Malabou, Plasticity and Film"
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Exploring Cinema Memory
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Eric Rohmer: the Ordinary Miracle of Love
Invited talk
Godard / Cavell: In praise of two
Oral presentation
Reflections on the reality of film
Invited talk
Launch of Digital Humanities Centre, Lancaster University
Other
Screening event, Un carnet de bal
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Glasgow, Cinema City: here and there in a dear green place, by Thomas McGoran
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
CMDA presentation, Lancaster University Library Festival 2022
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
London Cinemagoers and 'Films from many Nations'
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
BAFTSS Annual Conference 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
CMDA conference 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Screening event, The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Lancaster University Library Festival
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Designing an AHRC Project: Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive
Invited talk
Reality Fictions and Filmic Reality: The Films of Frederick Wiseman
Invited talk
Possessive Individualism and the European Crisis: The Films of Joachim Lafosse
Invited talk
Love in Five Films by Agnes Varda
Invited talk
Ida and Immersion
Invited talk
On Fetishism and Fantasia
Invited talk
Deleuze and Kracauer in Hollywood: Contemporary Blockbusters and Control Societies
Invited talk
Cavellian Themes in Last Year in Marienbad
Invited talk
Contemporary Hollywood and Control Societies
Invited talk
- Cultures
- Insight
- Lancaster Centre for Digital Humanities