Dr Robert Boucaut

Lecturer

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

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.

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Education

Date Institution name Country Title

University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Media
Research Interests

Film and Television Cultural Studies Screen media Gender and sexualities

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

Journals

Year	Citation
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 Scopus6 WoS6
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. Scopus1 WoS1
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
2021	Boucaut, R. (2021). ‘Oscar’. Persona Studies, 7(1), 6-19. DOI

Books

Year Citation

2025 Boucaut, R. (2025). Oscar Bait The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige. Routledge.

Year	Citation
2025	Boucaut, R. (2025). Oscar Bait The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige. Routledge.

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)

Position: Lecturer
Email: robert.boucaut@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: North Terrace
Org Unit: Media

Dr Robert Boucaut

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