Projects per year
Personal profile
Current Teaching
I currently teach on the following modules:
LICA150: Introduction to Film
LICA252: Film Theory
LICA255: European New Wave Cinema
LICA357: Movie Musicals
LICA416: Cinema and History
Research Interests
My research focuses on the intersection between theory, culture and the image, with a particular focus on film.
Theatricality and the Arts: Film, Theatre, Art (co-edited with Andrew Quick), Edinburgh University Press, 2024 - https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-theatricality-and-the-arts.html
Modern European Cinema and Love - Manchester University Press, 2023: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149435/
Deleuze and Lola Montès - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/deleuze-and-lola-montes-9781501345760/
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema(Palgrave Macmillan 2013) - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230244580
Cinema After Deleuze(Continuum 2012) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cinema-after-deleuze-9780826438928/
The Reality of Film(Manchester University Press 2011) - https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719082689/
What is Film Theory?(Open University Press / McGraw-Hill 2010) - co-written by Gary Bettinson - https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Film-Theory-Richard-Rushton/dp/0335234232
See also:
On Theatricality, a special issue of the journal Performance Research - https://www.performance-research.org/current-issue.php
Keywords
- Contemporary Arts and Performance
User-defined keywords
- Aesthetics
- Art/cultural history
- Cinema
- Class politics
- Continental philosophy
- Cultural theory
- Democracy
- Film
- Film studies
- Freud
- German idealism
- Imagination
- Kant
- Modernism
- Political ideologies
- Political theory
- Psychoanalytic criticism
- Psychoanalytic thought
- Reader/reception theory
- Theatre
- Theories of modernity
- Theory
- Visual culture
- Word and image studies
- Cultural Studies
- Culture
- Media
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
Rushton, R. (Co-Investigator), Stead, M. (Co-Investigator), Perez Ojeda, D. (Co-Investigator), Brook, R. (Co-Investigator), Baker, C. (Co-Investigator), Fagan, D. (Co-Investigator), Cousins, E. (Co-Investigator), Casey, S. (Co-Investigator), Halliday, E. (Co-Investigator), Flint, A. (Co-Investigator), Jarvis, H. (Co-Investigator), Bye, D. (Co-Investigator), Costa, A. (Co-Investigator), Edmonds, F. (Co-Investigator), Donkersley, P. (Co-Investigator), Findlay, A. (Co-Investigator), Bushell, S. (Co-Investigator), Gillen, J. (Principal Investigator), Tsekleves, E. (Co-Investigator), Tsekleves, E. (Co-Investigator), Newton, R. (Co-Investigator), Ruston, S. (Co-Investigator), Griffiths, R. (Co-Investigator), Davies, J. (Co-Investigator) & Bennett, B. (Co-Investigator)
1/04/22 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond
Rushton, R. (Principal Investigator)
4/06/19 → 28/10/22
Project: Research
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Habiba Djanine: Memory Bearer
Rushton, R. (Editor) & Petty, S., 20/05/2025, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 133 p. (Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers)Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Scholarly edition
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Barbie and the Question of Subjectivity
Rushton, R., 31/12/2024, In: Journal of Continental Philosophy. 5, 2, p. 243-262 20 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Introduction: Questioning Theatricality
Quick, A. & Rushton, R., 1/04/2024, Theatricality and the Arts: Film, Theatre, Art. Quick, A. & Rushton, R. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Music, Miles Davis and Theatricality
Gebhardt, N. & Rushton, R., 4/04/2024, Theatricality and the Arts: Film, Theatre, Art. Rushton, R. & Quick, A. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 201-219 19 p.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Theatricality and the Arts: Film, Theatre, Art
Quick, A. (Editor) & Rushton, R. (Editor), 1/04/2024, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Anthology
Activities
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Almodovar and Queer Cinema
Rushton, R. (Speaker)
29/06/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Response to Glasgow City Council Provost Welcome
Rushton, R. (Speaker)
27/06/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Cinema Memory and Well-being
Rushton, R. (Speaker)
30/04/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
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And the Ship Sails On (Deleuze and Fellini)
Rushton, R. (Speaker)
21/02/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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LICA Research Seminar: "Film & Philosophy: Catherine Malabou, Plasticity and Film"
Dalton, B. (Speaker), Rushton, R. (Organiser) & Tyrer, B. (Speaker)
6/11/2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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