Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Richard McCulloch is Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies, and joined the University of Huddersfield in January 2016. He has held previous appointments at five other UK universities, most notably Regent’s University London, where he was responsible for overseeing the design of a new Film Studies degree pathway in 2015.
He studied Film and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, where he later went on to complete his MA and PhD. His doctoral research looked at reputation and discourses of quality in relation to Pixar Animation Studios, and he is in currently updating and expanding on his ideas for a forthcoming monograph.
Richard is co-director of The World Star Wars Project (www.WorldStarWars.net) – a five-year study of the post-Disney Star Wars franchise and its audiences – and he is also on the board of the Fan Studies Network.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Media audiences and reception
- Fandom and fan cultures
- Contemporary Hollywood
- Movie franchising
- Cult film and television
- Popular culture
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irony
Social Sciences
spectator
Social Sciences
emotion
Social Sciences
dismissal
Social Sciences
know how
Social Sciences
movies
Social Sciences
complaint
Social Sciences
subjectivity
Social Sciences
Network
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Research Output 2015 2016
Exploring Imaginary Worlds: Audiences, fan cultures, and geographies of the imagination
Proctor, W. & McCulloch, R. May 2016 In : Participations; Journal of audience and reception studies. 13, 1, p. 479-487 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Tied Up In Knots: Irony, Ambiguity, and the 'Difficult' Pleasures of Fifty Shades of Grey
McCulloch, R. Jan 2016 In : Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media. 8, p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
irony
spectator
emotion
dismissal
know how
'Watch like a grown up ... enjoy like a child': Exhibition, authenticity, and film audiences at the Prince Charles Cinema
McCulloch, R. & Crisp, V. May 2016 In : Participations; Journal of audience and reception studies. 13, 1, p. 188-217 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Cinema
Prince Charles
Authenticity
Screening
Superiority
Whistle While You Work: Branding, Critical Reception and Pixar’s Production Culture
Mcculloch, R. 2015 Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives. Pearson, R. & Smith, A. N. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 174-189 16 p. Chapter 10Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
Open Access
Critical Reception
Pixar
Branding
Intangibles
Rivals