Richard Maltby

Biography

Richard Maltby is the Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Screen Studies at Flinders University, where he was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law from 2011 to 2017. Before moving to Australia in 1997, he was the founding Director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter and then Research Professor of Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published extensively on the history and aesthetics of American cinema, the analysis of Hollywood as a cultural and commercial institution and the social history of cinema audiences, exhibition and reception.

His publications include Decoding the Movies: Hollywood in the 1930s (2021), The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (2019), Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (2011), Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema (2007), Hollywood Cinema: Second Edition (2003), Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences (2001), “Film Europe” and “Film America”: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925-1939 (1999) and Harmless Entertainment: Hollywood and the Ideology of Consensus (1983). He is Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History.