神马福利影片

Richard Wallace is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies. He gained his BA (Hons) in Film and Literature at the 神马福利影片, where he also completed his MA (for Research) and PhD in Film and Television Studies. His research interests include aspects of British television history, film and television documentary, and screen comedy.

Current Research:

Richard's work explores the interplay between historical research methods (including archives and interviews), historiography, and the mediation of the 鈥榬eal world鈥� in factual media, thinking about how we tell stories through and about film and television. His most recent research for involved conducting oral history interviews and archival research to explore the figure of the cinema projectionist in the UK. The project chronicles the changing role of projectionists and the everyday working practices of a group of skilled workers whose vocation has all but disappeared as a result of the introduction of digital projection systems.

Richard is also a member of the and convened the group between 2012 and 2014. Between 2013 and 2014 he was the project officer on the 鈥榁oices of the University: Memories of Warwick, 1965 – 2015鈥� oral history project running in the Institute of Advances Study at Warwick.

Publications:

Books:

(Bloomsbury, 2025)

(with Jon Burrows) (John Libbey / Indiana University Press, 2022)

(London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2018)

Edited Journals, Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

, in Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer (eds.), Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 199-213

, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 38(6) (2021), pp. 519-540

'A New "Wild West" of Projection' (with Michael Pigott), in Virginia Crisp and Gabriel Menotti (eds), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 19-35

(2018), 鈥楾he Projection Issue鈥�, co-edited with Charlotte Brunsdon and Jon Burrows

(with Rebecca Harrison and Charlotte Brunsdon), Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(1) (2018), pp. 46-65

, Journal of British Cinema and Television 15(1) (2018), pp. 6-26

, Oral History, 45(1) (2017), pp. 55-66

(with Grace Huxford), Oral History 45(1) (2017), pp. 79-90

, Journal of British Cinema and Television 13(1), pp. 99-120

鈥楯oint Ventures and Loose Cannons: Reconstructing Doctor Who鈥檚 Lost Past鈥� in Paul Booth (ed.), Doctor Who: Fan Phenomena (Bristol: Intellect, 2013), pp. 28-37

鈥樷�淏ut Doctor?鈥� – A Feminist Perspective of Doctor Who鈥� in Christopher J. Hansen (ed.), Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 102-116

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