Dr Andrew Stubbs is Senior Lecturer of Film Industries and Studies in the Department of Creative Industries. He is also the postgraduate research coordinator, co-lead for the C3 research centre, and his department’s ethics coordinator. Dr Stubbs-Lacy completed his PhD at Edge Hill University in Film, Television and Media Studies in 2019. Before that, he completed his MA in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick and his BA in Film Studies at University of Staffordshire.
Dr Stubbs-Lacy joined the University of Staffordshire as lecturer of Film, Media and Communication in 2019. Since then, he has delivered teaching underpinned by research focused on screen authorship, Hollywood and American independent cinema, television drama, pay-tv and streaming, media convergence, media branding and marketing, genre, and talent intermediaries. He has also played a significant role in developing the department of Creative Industries’ critical, contextual and employability curriculum and has led several modules in these areas. Between 2019 and 2023, Stubbs-Lacy was also the academic link tutor for two partner institutions and played a leading role in their curriculum revalidation. Stubbs-Lacy has been the postgraduate research and ethics coordinators for the department of Creative Industries since 2024.
In addition to his monograph, Stubbs-Lacy has produced several high-quality publications including journal articles and book chapters, such as an open-access article on the distribution and box-office of Black films for Media Industries Journal. Alongside Eddie Falvey, Kate Moffat, and Thomas Joseph Watson, he has also recently completed an edited collection for Edinburgh University Press’s ReFocus series on the career and work of Nicolas Winding Refn. While most of Stubbs-Lacy’s work to date has focused on American indie cinema, his current British Academy-funded project is an investigation into talent agents and managers in the UK during a period of boom and bust. Using first-hand interviews, this investigation promises to shed new light on the roles that talent intermediaries play in contemporary media industries.
As a co-lead of the University of Staffordshire’s C3 research centre, Stubbs-Lacy plays an important role in developing the university’s research culture. Stubbs-Lacy has supervised one PhD to completion (as director of studies/primary supervisor) and is currently supervising several others. As his department’s postgraduate research coordinator, Stubbs-Lacy would be happy to work with anyone interested in developing a PhD proposal within the area of Creative Industries. He would also be keen to receive proposals on any topics that align with his areas of expertise.
Professional memberships and activities
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
- Member of British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)
Academic qualifications
- PhD – Edge Hill University
- MA – Warwick University
- BA – University of Staffordshire
Expertise
- Screen media industries
- Hollywood and American independent film
- Cultural and talent intermediaries
- Television drama
- Pay-tv and streaming
- Media convergence
- Branding and marketing
- Screen authorship
- Stardom
- Branded content and short-form media
Grants
British Academy Small Grant (£9,998) in 2026
Teaching
I lead on critical and contextual modules across the department for creative industries.
Publications
Monographs:
- The Talent Management of Indie Authorship: From American Independent Cinema and Short “Films” to Pay-TV and Streaming, Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Edited collections:
- Falvey, Eddie, Moffat, Kate, Stubbs-Lacy, Andrew, and Watson, Joseph (eds.) Refocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026.
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- ‘“We definitely are going to make billions, but we want to do it in a smart and thoughtful way”: Macro, amplifying marginalised voices, and the barriers of Hollywood’s industry logics’, Media Industries Journal, 2026 (accepted).
- ‘Born to be Sold: Mobilizing the Coen brothers’ brand of independence and intertextual play for Mercedes, Short Film Studies, 15.2, 2025.
- ‘Music Video (De)Legitimacy and the Construction of a (Short Form) Auteur: David Fincher and Talent Management’, Short Film Studies Journal, 11.2, 2021.
- ‘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, 2020.
Book chapters:
- ‘Selling “Cinematic TV” and its Consequences: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young', Falvey, Moffat, Stubbs-Lacy and Watson (eds.) ReFocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (accepted).
- ‘Introduction: Auteurism and Generic Exchange in the Films of Nicolas Winding Refn’, Falvey, Moffat, Stubbs-Lacy and Watson (eds.) ReFocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (accepted).
- ‘Mother’. McKenna (ed.) Screening Controversial Film, Routledge, 2026 (accepted).
- ‘“I Could Tell That They Were on Some New Shit”: A24 and the management of auteurism as a branded discourse’, Wilkins and Isaacs (eds.) A24: Culture, Aesthetics, Identity, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (accepted).
- ‘I’m a Virgo: A critique and product of White cultural and economic hegemony, Austin (ed.) Black Image Makers on Whiteness, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (accepted).
- ‘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, 2023.
- ‘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, 2019.
- ‘Creation as Recreation: Steven Spielberg and the Remake’, Roche (ed.) Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind and Humanist, Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2018.
Non-refereed online articles:
- ‘Welcome to Wrexham and Representations of Management in Football (Soccer) as a Product of the “Media Sports Cultural Complex”’, Flow, 2025.
- ‘Disclaimer, Anonymous Content and Single Series Auteur-Directed Television’, Flow, 2024.
Invited Keynote:
- ‘Quality, Diversity and Professional Legitimacy in the Screen Media Industries’, Audio-visual Quality Conference, Braga, Portugal, University of Minho, 2023.
- Selected conference papers:
- Macro’s Black Screen Production: Critiques of capitalism and fantasies of escape, SCMS Chicago, 2025.
- “We definitely are going to make billions, but we want to do it in a smart and thoughtful way”: Macro, amplifying marginalised voices, and the barriers of Hollywood’s industry logics, Media Industries Conference ‘24, King’s College London, 2024.
- ‘Talent Intermediaries: Anonymous Content and the Independent Feature Packaging Technique’, Television Histories in Development, Hilversum Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, 2021.
- ‘Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick: Talent managers and indie-auteurs in Peak TV’, TRANS TV conference, Westminster University, 2017.