Thomas ("Tom") Andrew O'Regan (10 May 1956 − 17 July 2020[1]) was a Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Queensland.
He had also been Head of the School of English, Media Studies and Art History Ian Russell, 2005–2008, Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy (Griffith University 1999–2002) and Director of the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication (Murdoch University, 1996–1998).
His publications reflected his abiding interest in the various ways and byways of film, television and cultural sectors.
This work is marked by its attention to the places and spaces in which such production occurs including the film studio and policy infrastructures required to support it.
Their 2010 book, Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast, co-authored with Susan Ward, used the Gold Coast in Australia to document how places outside of Los Angeles had proactively engaged with Hollywood to co-create the contemporary system of globally dispersed.