Robert Boucaut

Research Interests

Film and Television Cultural Studies Screen media Gender and sexualities

Dr Robert Boucaut

Lecturer A

School of Communication, Media and Journalism

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Available For Media Comment.

Robert Boucaut is an Adjunct Lecturer at Adelaide University —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.

My research explores celebrity, masculinity, and cultural prestige across screen media. My monograph Oscar Bait: The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige (Routledge) analyses Hollywood media and awards. I have published in journals such as International Journal of Communication, Media International Australia and Critical Studies in Television.

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

Year Citation
2026 Son, C., Fielding, V., Beare, A., & Boucaut, R. (2026). An Agenda Feedback Wheel: News Corp’s Coverage of the Marcia Langton ‘Racism’ Controversy. Journalism and Media, 7(1), 4-1-4-20.
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2026 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, 21(2), 160-182.
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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 Scopus11 WoS9
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.
Scopus6 WoS6
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 Scopus3 WoS2
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, 1-25.
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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.
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2021 Boucaut, R. (2021). ‘Oscar’. Persona Studies, 7(1), 6-19.
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Year Citation
2026 Boucaut, R. (2026). Symbolic interest, and the construction and gatekeeping of celebrity narratives on the awards circuit. In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity (pp. 120-132). Routledge.
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Year Citation
2024 Son, C., Fielding, V., Boucaut, R., & Beare, A. (2024). News Corp’s agenda wheel of influence: Media, political and public agendas converge in the Voice referendum. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA). RMIT, Melbourne.

Course Coordinator:

2026 Creating Content for Media (Lvl. II)
2025; 24 Media Industry Transitions (Lvl. III)
2025; 24 ; 20 Key Concepts in Media Online (Lvl. I)
2025; 22 Key Concepts in Media (Lvl. I)
2024 Honours Film Thesis (Hons.)
2024 Honours Film Theory (Hons.)

Tutor:

2026 Popular Screen Cultures (Lvl. II)
2026 Cinema of Hollywood (Lvl. I)
2026 Understanding Film (Lvl. I)
2025 Media Master Thesis (MA)
2025 The Digital Image (Lvl. III)
2025; 24 Crafting Careers (Lvl. I)
2024; 17-22 Key Concepts in Media (Lvl. I)
2024 Media Relations (Lvl. II)
2023 Workplace Experience (Lvls. II, III & Masters)
2023 Media Professions and Identities (Lvl. I)
2022 Media Industry Transitions (Lvl. III)
2021-22 Key Concepts in Media Online (Lvl. I)
2017-19 Researching Media (Lvl. II)
2015-19 Screen & Sound Industries (Lvl. I)
2016 Approaches to Media (Lvl. II)

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