Robert Boucaut

Research Interests

Film and Television Cultural Studies Screen media Gender and sexualities

Dr Robert Boucaut

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Robert Boucaut is a Lecturer in Media at The University of Adelaide—his research interests include prestige media texts and celebrities, streaming services and programming imperatives, and mediated gender. His book Oscar Bait: The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige (Routledge) builds new frameworks for analysing Hollywood media ecosystems and awards. He has published works in International Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Television, and Media International Australia.

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Media

Year Citation
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 WoS8
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
2022 Boucaut, R., & Pugsley, P. C. (2022). Publics of interest and the death of the critic on Australian TV. Media International Australia, 194(1), 3-16.
DOI Scopus1
2021 Boucaut, R. (2021). ‘Oscar’. Persona Studies, 7(1), 6-19.
DOI
- Son, C., Fielding, V., Beare, A., & Boucaut, R. (2025). An Agenda Feedback Wheel: News Corp’s Coverage of the Marcia Langton ‘Racism’ Controversy. Journalism and Media, 7(1), 4.
DOI
- Boyle, A., Beare, A., Boucaut, R., McCutcheon, M., O'Meara, D. J., Turnbull, S., & Weissmann, E. (2026). Dossier: Sites of struggle: Television's cultural and economic value. CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION, 23 pages.
DOI

Course Coordinator:

2025; 24 Media Industry Transitions (Level III)
2025; 24 ; 20 Key Concepts in Media Online (Level I)
2025; 22 Key Concepts in Media (Level I)
2024 Honours Film Thesis (Honours)
2024 Honours Film Theory (Honours)

Tutor:

2025 Media Master Thesis (Masters by Coursework)
2025 The Digital Image (Level III)
2025; 24 Crafting Careers (Level I)
2024; 17-22 Key Concepts in Media (Level I)
2024 Media Relations (Level II)
2023 Workplace Experience (Levels II, III & Masters)
2023 Media Professions and Identities (Level I)
2022 Media Industry Transitions (Level III)
2021-22 Key Concepts in Media Online (Level I)
2017-19 Researching Media (Level II)
2015-19 Screen & Sound Industries (Level I)
2016 Approaches to Media (Level II)

Connect With Me

External Profiles

Other Links