Alexander Beare

Research Interests

Culture, Gender, Sexuality Film, Television and Digital Media Media Studies Screen and Media Culture

Mr Alexander Beare

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Alexander Beare is a Lecturer in media studies at The University of Adelaide. His work specialises in the dynamic relationship between televisual technologies and audience cultures. He has written about the industry logics underpinning Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) programming imperatives and TV series such as The Sopranos, Ted Lasso, and Yellowjackets. Alex's work has been published in academic journals including Television and New Media, Critical Studies in Television and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

My research interests include,

  • Streaming media
  • Screen industries
  • Audience cultures
  • Television studies
  • 'Prestige' television
  • Gender and masculinities
  • Storytelling and memory

 

Date Position Institution name
2020 - ongoing Student Outreach Presenter University of Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
2019 - 2022 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD
2018 The University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Arts (Advanced)

Year Citation
2025 Fielding, V., Son, C., Boucaut, R., & Beare, A. H. (2025). News Corp Australia’s Conservative Advocacy Against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. International Journal of Communication, 19, 437-457.
Scopus3 WoS3
2025 Fielding, V., Boucaut, R., Son, C., & Beare, A. H. (2025). News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 42(1), 89-94.
DOI
2025 Boucaut, R., & Beare, A. (2025). Conduct Unbecoming: Masculinity and Punishment in Media Coverage of Homophobia in the Australian Football League (AFL). Communication and Sport, 25 pages.
DOI
2025 Beare, A. H., & Boucaut, R. (2025). Positive masculinity or toxic positivity? Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso as a capitalist utopia. Critical Studies in Television, 20(2), 169-184.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). The Contemporary Afterlives of Serial Drama: Considering New Audience Readings of "Old" Television. Television & New Media, 25(7), 704-719.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). COVID-19, the slow-moving apocalypse, and
<i>The Sopranos</i>
: investigating new interpretive contexts. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 41(1), 84-97.
DOI
2023 Beare, A. H., & Brierley-Beare, A. (2023). "You Know There's No 'It' Right? 'It' Was Just Us": Magic as a Tool for Audience Empathy in Yellowjackets. M/C Journal, 26(5).
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- Beare, A. H. (2019). Prosthetic Memories in &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt;. M/C Journal, 22(5).
DOI

Year Citation
2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). The Sopranos As a Slow-Moving Apocalypse During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In The New Audience for Old TV (pp. 55-70). Routledge.
DOI
2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). “Let Them Tear Each Other's Throats Out”. In The New Audience for Old TV (pp. 91-107). Routledge.
DOI
2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). What's With All the Tony Soprano Memes? The Sopranos Experience in 2020. In The New Audience for Old TV (pp. 1-15). Routledge.
DOI
2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). “It's Called Streaming, T”. In The New Audience for Old TV (pp. 16-54). Routledge.
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2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). “Adriana Reminds Me So Much of Fergie”. In The New Audience for Old TV (pp. 71-90). Routledge.
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2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). Conclusion. In The New Audience for Old TV (pp. 126-130). Routledge.
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2024 Beare, A. H. (2024). “It's Like a Fight Club Situation”. In The New Audience for Old TV (pp. 108-125). Routledge.
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Date Project Title Investigators Role Funding Body
2023-24 Artisanal Making and the Future of Small-Scale Local Production A/Prof M Phillipov, Prof S Luckman Project Officer Australian Research Council
2023-24 University of Adelaide WIL Enhancement  Project A/Prof K Bowd, Dr M Dissanayake Project Coordinator University of Adelaide
2023 Murdoch Referendum Accountability Project Dr V Fielding Project Officer Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission
2023 Providing a Critical Evaluation of Media News Through Innovative Approaches A/Prof K Bowd, A/Prof N Falkner, A/Prof E Palmer Project Officer University of Adelaide
         
         

 

Date Course Title  Course Level/Code Role
2024- Media Master Thesis MDIA 7003 Course Coordinator
2023-24 Screen and Sound Industries MDIA 1015 Course Coordinator
2022-24 Approaches to Media MDIA 2301 Course Coordinator
2022-24 Media Policy Media Law MDIA 3203 Tutor
2021 Professional Practises  MDIA 3310 Tutor
2021 Researching Media  MDIA 2302 Tutor
2020-21 Screen and Sound Industries  MDIA 1015 Tutor
2019 Exploring TV & Radio MDIA 1004 Tutor

 

 

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