Dr Jamie Sexton

Associate Professor

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

My research is mostly concerned with alternative forms of film and other media, particularly cult cinema and independent cinema. Methodologically, I have approached subject areas from different angles, but I am particularly interested in looking at how films and other media forms are embedded within particular contextual frameworks, which has led me to employ historical and reception approaches on a number of occasions. I am, nevertheless, also interested in exploring other issues, such as the relations between new technologies and aesthetics.

I am currently co-editor of the book series Cultographies (http://www.cultographies.com).

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Key Publications

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Anonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s, Johnston, N., Sexton, J., Roy, E. 6 Feb 2025
Introduction, Johnston, N., Roy, E., Sexton, J. 6 Feb 2025, Anonymous Sounds, London, Bloomsbury
Sampling the Obscure: The Recontextualization and Increased Value of Library Music, Sexton, J. 6 Feb 2025, Anonymous Sounds, London, Bloomsbury
Ghostly Transmedia: Julian House and Hauntological Audio-Vision , Sexton, J. 2 Nov 2023, Traveling Music Videos, London, Bloomsbury
Producing Paranormal Sounds: Electronic Music, Projection, and Blurred Boundaries in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Stone Tape (1972), Sexton, J. 2 Nov 2023, Haunted Soundtracks, London, Bloomsbury
‘Everything About Being Indie Is All Tied to Not Being Black’: Indie Music, Race and Identity in Medicine for Melancholy and Pariah, Sexton, J. Dec 2022, In: Music, Sound and the Moving Image
Freak Scenes: American indie cinema and indie music cultures, Sexton, J. 31 Dec 2022
Low Budget Audio-visual Aesthetics in Indie Music Video and Feature Filmmaking: The Works of Steve Hanft and Danny Perez, Sexton, J. 17 Oct 2019, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis , Bloomsbury
Stranger Than Paradise, Sexton, J. 18 May 2018
Editorial Introduction: The multiplicities of transnational cult – intersecting with(in) reason, Hills, M., Sexton, J. Jan 2017, In: Transnational Cinemas