Andrew specialises in researching the screen media industries, focusing especially on talent intermediaries, screen authorship, Hollywood and American independent film, television drama, pay-tv and streaming, media convergence, and media branding and marketing. This research has led to high-quality publications, including a monograph, titled The Talent Management of Indie Authorship: From American independent cinema and short "films" to Pay-TV and Streaming, for Edinburgh University Press and several journal articles and chapters. Andrew is also on the editorial board of the Short Film Studies journal and regularly reviews for other publishers.
He is has recently completed supervising a PhD by practice on the independent producer in a new education-industry production model and welcomes any PhD proposals related to the topics listed above. As the school’s postgraduate research coordinator, he would also be happy to work with you on developing any PhD proposal that may interest any of the school’s academics.
Andrew completed his PhD at Edge Hill University in 2019 and, before that, completed his MA in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick and his BA in Film Studies at Staffordshire University.
Professional memberships and activities
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
- Member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Member of British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)
Academic qualifications
- PhD – Edge Hill University
- MA – Warwick University
- BA – Staffordshire University
Expertise
- Screen media industries
- Hollywood and American independent film
- Television drama
- Pay-tv and streaming
- Talent Management in the cultural industries
- Media convergence
- Media branding and marketing
- Screen Authorship
- Stardom
- Branded content and short-form media
Teaching
I lead on the critical, contextual and employability modules throughout the Film BA and MA.
Publications
Selected publications:
Monographs Stubbs A. 2024. The Talent Management of Indie Authorship: From American Independent Cinema and Short "Films" to Pay-TV and Streaming.
Edinburgh University Press. Journal Articles Stubbs-Lacy A. 2025 (under review). ‘“We definitely are going to make billions, but we want to do it in a smart and thoughtful way”: Macro, Black-cast film distribution, and the barriers of Hollywood’s industry logics’.
Media Industries. Stubbs-Lacy A. 2025 (under review). ‘Born to Be Sold: Mobilizing the Coen Brothers’ brand and intertextual play for Mercedes and the Super Bowl’. Short Film Studies Journal. 15.2.
Stubbs-Lacy A. 2024. ‘Disclaimer, Anonymous Content and Single Series Auteur-Directed Television’. Flow. 31.3. Stubbs A. 2021. ‘Music Video (De)Legitimacy and the Construction of a (Short Form) Auteur: David Fincher and Talent Management’. Short Film Studies Journal 11.2.
Stubbs A. 2020. ‘Packaging House of Cards and The Knick: How Talent Intermediaries Manage the Indie-Auteur Brand to Sell Premium Television’. Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 15.2. pp. 129-147.
Book Chapters Stubbs-Lacy A. 2025 (forthcoming). ‘A24 and the Management of Auteur Brands’. Wilkins and Isaacs (eds.). Untitled A24 Collection. Edinburgh University Press.
Stubbs-Lacy A. 2025 (forthcoming). ‘Mother’. McKenna (ed.). Screening Controversial Film. Routledge. Stubbs-Lacy A. 2025 (accepted). ‘I’m A Virgo: Boots Riley’s Critique and Product of White Cultural and Economic Hegemony’. Black Image Making and Whiteness. Edinburgh University Press.
Stubbs A. 2023. ‘Packaging the “Purest” form of Indie TV: Michael Sugar, Talent Management and Indie-Auteur Clients’. Tzioumakis and Lyons (eds.) Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity. Routledge.
Stubbs A. 2019. ‘Spike Jonze, Propaganda/Satellite Films and Music Video Work: Talent management and the construction of indie-auteurs’. Wilkins and Moss-Wellington (eds.) ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 213-230.
Stubbs A. 2018. ‘Creation as Recreation: Steven Spielberg and the Remake’. Roche (ed.) Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind and Humanist. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. pp. 149-164