Dr Jamie Sexton

Associate Professor

Department: Arts

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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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
Kurja Polt: Kulti, Klasike in ŽAnrski Odpadniki na 35 mm, Jones, S., Hunter, R., Egan, K., Sexton, J., Peče, M., Dariš, M., Krajnc, M., Nikolič, P., Lovrenov, M. 2017
Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema, Sexton, J. 1 Dec 2016, A Companion to American Indie Film, Malden, Wiley
The allure of otherness: transnational cult film fandom and the exoticist assumption, Sexton, J. 4 Nov 2016, In: Transnational Cinemas

PGR Supervision

Henry Carden Start Date: 01/10/2018 End Date: 01/08/2020
Craig Clark Screening Psychedelic Aesthetics: Film and Television Representations of the LSD Experience Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 10/05/2023
Melissa Hair Women Filmmakers in American Indie Cinema: Gender, Genre, and Contemporary Culture Start Date: 07/10/2014 End Date: 03/07/2019

Qualifications

PhD June 30 2001
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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