Richard Maltby

Richard Maltby is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies at Flinders University, South Australia. He moved to Flinders from the UK, where he established the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter, before becoming Research Professor in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.

His publications include Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (Routledge, 2011), Hollywood Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell), Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century (Harrap). ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925-1939, co-edited with Andrew Higson (UEP 1999), was winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000.

He is a Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History.

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Decoding the Movies - Hollywood in the 1930s

By Richard Maltby

This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field, it uses a series of case studies to demonstrate how an appreciation of these movies is enhanced by examining the circumstances of their production and consumption.

Hardback £115.00
9781905816446 | Published: 2020

'Film Europe' And 'Film America' - Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939

Edited by Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby

A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.

Paperback £25.00
9780859895460 | Published: 1999

Hardback £75.00
9780859895453 | Published: 1999

Going to the Movies - Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema

Edited by Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes and Robert C. Allen

This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa.

Paperback £25.00
9780859898126 | Published: 2007

Hardback £75.00
9780859898119 | Published: 2007

PDF £25.00
9780859899161 | Published: 2015

Representing Others - White Views of Indigenous Peoples

Edited by Mick Gidley

Representing Others examines a diverse range of cultural forms in which white novelists, sculptors, diarists, photographers, ethnographers, travel writers and filmmakers have depicted Native American, African, Pacific and Australian Aboriginal peoples.

Paperback £18.00
9780859893541 | Published: 1994

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Decoding the Movies - Hollywood in the 1930s

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'Film Europe' And 'Film America' - Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939
Going to the Movies - Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema

Richard Maltby

Decoding the Movies - Hollywood in the 1930s

'Film Europe' And 'Film America' - Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939

Going to the Movies - Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema

Representing Others - White Views of Indigenous Peoples

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