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Professor Jason Jacobs
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Jason Jacobs

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Overview

Background

Jacobs has an international reputation as a historian of television drama, its institutions, technology and aesthetics. He has taught film and television studies at the University of East Anglia, the University of Warwick, and Griffith University. His first book, The Intimate Screen (Oxford University Press, 2000) is a pioneering study of early television drama; his second book Body Trauma TV (British Film Institute, 2003) explores the aesthetics of the hospital drama in relation to the contemporary cultural imagination. More recently he published Deadwood (Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute, 2012), as part of the BFI TV Classics series. He is currently working on an Australian Research Council funded project called ’The Persistence of Television: How the Medium Adapts to Survive in the Digital World', and is writing a book on David Milch, the author of Deadwood (Manchester University Press).

Availability

Professor Jason Jacobs is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Warwick
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of East Anglia

Research interests

  • Television aesthetics

    especially contemporary debates about judgement and value.

  • The history of television (and other kinds of broadcasting)

    which connects textual production to institutional, commercial and technological contexts.

  • Aspects of television art and achievement

    especially in relation to contemporary television drama and authorship. The history and present of screen aesthetics in relation to television, videogames, film, etc., especially issues, theorisations and debates concerning medium specificity.

Works

Search Professor Jason Jacobs’s works on UQ eSpace

54 works between 2000 and 2023

1 - 20 of 54 works

2023

Other Outputs

Real human beings: realism, pressure, and time in the pusher trilogy

Taylor, Alison and Jacobs, Jason (2023). Real human beings: realism, pressure, and time in the pusher trilogy. Pusher Trilogy Collector's Edition: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher Trilogy Box Set. (pp. *-*) edited by Nicolas Winding Ref'n (Director). Kew, VIC, Australia: Umbrella Entertainment.

Real human beings: realism, pressure, and time in the pusher trilogy

2023

Book

Reluctant sleuths, true detectives

Jacobs, Jason (2023). Reluctant sleuths, true detectives. Albany, NY, United States: State University of New York Press.

Reluctant sleuths, true detectives

2022

Book Chapter

Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short

Jacobs, Jason (2022). Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short. Autism in Film and Television: On the Island. (pp. 83-93) edited by Pomerance, Murray and Palmer, R. Barton. Austin, TX United States: University of Texas Press. doi: 10.7560/324912

Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short

2020

Journal Article

Television rewired: the rise of the auteur series

Jacobs, Jason (2020). Television rewired: the rise of the auteur series. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 18 (2), 242-244. doi: 10.1080/17400309.2020.1738065

Television rewired: the rise of the auteur series

2020

Book

David Milch

Jacobs, Jason (2020). David Milch. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. doi: 10.7765/9781526107084

David Milch

2017

Journal Article

From public–private virtue to cultural-corporate amoeba: Mr Blobby and the rise of BBC Worldwide during the 1990s

Jacobs, Jason and Thomas, Deborah J. (2017). From public–private virtue to cultural-corporate amoeba: Mr Blobby and the rise of BBC Worldwide during the 1990s. Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 38 (2), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/01439685.2017.1285149

From public–private virtue to cultural-corporate amoeba: Mr Blobby and the rise of BBC Worldwide during the 1990s

2017

Journal Article

The persistence of television: the case of The Good Life

Bonner, Frances and Jacobs, Jason (2017). The persistence of television: the case of The Good Life. Critical Studies in Television, 12 (1), 6-20. doi: 10.1177/1749602016682751

The persistence of television: the case of The Good Life

2015

Book Chapter

Television Drama

Jacobs, Jason (2015). Television Drama. The SAGE Handbook of Television Studies. (pp. 315-324) edited by Manuel Alvarado, Milly Buonanno, Herman Gray and Toby Miller. Los Angeles, CA United States: SAGE Reference. doi: 10.4135/9781473910423.n23

Television Drama

2014

Other Outputs

Criticism, submission and time: Mad Men and the killing

Jacobs, Jason (2014). Criticism, submission and time: Mad Men and the killing. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

Criticism, submission and time: Mad Men and the killing

2014

Other Outputs

True Detective and practical criticism

Jacobs, Jason (2014). True Detective and practical criticism. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

True Detective and practical criticism

2014

Other Outputs

Inside sport

Jacobs, Jason (2014). Inside sport. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

Inside sport

2013

Other Outputs

Television aesthetics and style: a conversation with Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock

Jacobs, Jason and Peacock, Steven (2013). Television aesthetics and style: a conversation with Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

Television aesthetics and style: a conversation with Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock

2013

Journal Article

Buonanno, Milly, "Italian TV Drama and Beyond: Stories from the Soil, Stories from the Sea", Jennifer Radice trans.

Jacobs, Jason (2013). Buonanno, Milly, "Italian TV Drama and Beyond: Stories from the Soil, Stories from the Sea", Jennifer Radice trans.. Media International Australia (148), 158-159.

Buonanno, Milly, "Italian TV Drama and Beyond: Stories from the Soil, Stories from the Sea", Jennifer Radice trans.

2013

Other Outputs

Beethoven, Games of Thrones and the pure aesthetic kick

Jacobs, Jason (2013). Beethoven, Games of Thrones and the pure aesthetic kick. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

Beethoven, Games of Thrones and the pure aesthetic kick

2013

Other Outputs

Ricky Gervais and Michael Haneke: together at last

Jacobs, Jason (2013). Ricky Gervais and Michael Haneke: together at last. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

Ricky Gervais and Michael Haneke: together at last

2013

Other Outputs

Preacher man

Jacobs, Jason (2013). Preacher man. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

Preacher man

2013

Book

Television aesthetics and style

Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock eds. (2013). Television aesthetics and style. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury Academic.

Television aesthetics and style

2013

Book Chapter

Introduction

Jacobs, Jason and Peacock, Steven (2013). Introduction. Television aesthetics and style. (pp. 1-20) New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury Academic.

Introduction

2012

Other Outputs

Homeland, time and titles

Jacobs, Jason (2012). Homeland, time and titles. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

Homeland, time and titles

2012

Other Outputs

The principles of garden design

Jacobs, Jason (2012). The principles of garden design. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.

The principles of garden design

Funding

Past funding

  • 2014
    AustLit - Infrastucture Supporting Studies in Australian Cultural History
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2019
    The Persistence of Television: how the medium adapts to survive in the digital world
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Bridging the gap: teaching adaptations across the disciplines and sharing content for curriculum renewal
    ALTC Innovation and Development Grants
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    ResTeach 2011 0.2 FTE School of English, Media Studies and Art History
    UQ ResTeach
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Worldwide: the history of the commercial arm of the BBC
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2009
    Constructing an Australian film and television digital resource and research community within AustLit
    UQ Faculty Co-Funding
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2011
    Creative software practice in 1980s Australia: a prehistory of digital sociality and culture Melanie Swalwell
    UQ Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2009
    Unrealised Productions - the Underside of the Australian Film Industry
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Professor Jason Jacobs is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Master Philosophy

    With Colleagues Like These: AI in the Workplace, On and Off Screen

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Identity and Representation of Novel Female Superheroes in Contemporary Cinema

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

Contact Professor Jason Jacobs directly for media enquiries about:

  • ABC
  • Art and aesthetics
  • Authorship - film and television
  • BBC and public service broadcasting
  • BBC Worldwide
  • British television
  • David Milch
  • Film and television authorship
  • Film history
  • HBO
  • History - television
  • Television - UK drama
  • Television - US drama
  • Television history
  • Videogames

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