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
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Television aesthetics
especially contemporary debates about judgement and value.
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The history of television (and other kinds of broadcasting)
which connects textual production to institutional, commercial and technological contexts.
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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
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2012
Other Outputs
Selling the medium: a brief history of the BBC's commercial arm
Jacobs, Jason (2012). Selling the medium: a brief history of the BBC's commercial arm. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2012
Other Outputs
Luck: a critical conversation (part two)
Jacobs, Jason and Peacock, Steven (2012). Luck: a critical conversation (part two). London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2012
Other Outputs
Luck: a critical conversation (Part one)
Jacobs, Jason and Peacock, Steven (2012). Luck: a critical conversation (Part one). London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2012
Other Outputs
Sad screens and videots
Jacobs, Jason (2012). Sad screens and videots. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2012
Other Outputs
Witnessing excellence in David Milch's Luck
Jacobs, Jason (2012). Witnessing excellence in David Milch's Luck. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2012
Book
Deadwood
Jacobs, Jason (2012). Deadwood. 1st ed. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
2011
Other Outputs
Inner and outer in Homeland
Jacobs, Jason (2011). Inner and outer in Homeland. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2011
Other Outputs
Up and down with Boardwalk Empire
Jacobs, Jason (2011). Up and down with Boardwalk Empire. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2011
Other Outputs
Against Occupation
Jacobs, Jason (2011). Against Occupation. London, UK: Critical Studies in Television, University of Hertfordshire.
2011
Journal Article
Convergence or diffusion? The spread of media history. Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake (eds): Convergence Media History
Jacobs, Jason (2011). Convergence or diffusion? The spread of media history. Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake (eds): Convergence Media History. Cultural Studies Review, 17 (2), 399-405.
2011
Journal Article
The store of the worlds: Television's extraordinary archives
Jacobs, Jason (2011). The store of the worlds: Television's extraordinary archives. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 8 (2), 175-187. doi: 10.3366/jbctv.2011.0026
2011
Journal Article
The first encounter: Observations on the chronology of encounter with some adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books
Bonner, Frances and Jacobs, Jason (2011). The first encounter: Observations on the chronology of encounter with some adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Convergence, 17 (1), 37-48. doi: 10.1177/1354856510383361
2011
Book Chapter
Christopher, Osama and AJ : Contemporary narcissism and terrorism in the Sopranos
Jacobs, Jason (2011). Christopher, Osama and AJ : Contemporary narcissism and terrorism in the Sopranos. The essential Sopranos reader. (pp. 65-80) edited by David Lavery, Douglas L. Howard and Paul Levinson. Lexington, KY, United States: University Press of Kentucky.
2011
Journal Article
The medium in crisis: Caughie, Brunsdon and the problem of US television
Jacobs, Jason (2011). The medium in crisis: Caughie, Brunsdon and the problem of US television. Screen, 52 (4), 503-511. doi: 10.1093/screen/hjr051
2011
Book Chapter
Television interrupted : Pollution or aesthetic
Jacobs, Jason (2011). Television interrupted : Pollution or aesthetic. Television as digital media. (pp. 255-280) edited by James Bennett and Niki Strange. Durham, NC, United States: Duke University Press.
2010
Journal Article
The Columbia History of American Television
Jacobs, Jason (2010). The Columbia History of American Television. Media International Australia, 134 (134), 157-158. doi: 10.1177/1329878x1013400121
2010
Book Chapter
South Park
Jacobs, Jason (2010). South Park. The Essential Cult TV Reader. (pp. 229-236) edited by David Lavery. Lexington, KY, U.S.A.: The University Press of Kentucky.
2009
Journal Article
Obsolete
Wilson, Jason and Jacobs, Jason (2009). Obsolete. M/C Journal of Media and Culture, 12 (3), x-x.
2009
Other Outputs
Austlit: Screenlit
O'Regan, Thomas, Bonner, Frances J., Jacobs, Jason, Kilner, Kerry, Djubal, Clay and Mills, Catriona (2009). Austlit: Screenlit. St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia: AustLit.
2008
Journal Article
Review of: Experimental British Television, L. Mulvey & J. Sexton (eds.), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007
Jacobs, Jason (2008). Review of: Experimental British Television, L. Mulvey & J. Sexton (eds.), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Screen, 49 (3), 370-373. doi: 10.1093/screen/hjn046
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
With Colleagues Like These: AI in the Workplace, On and Off Screen
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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Doctor Philosophy
Identity and Representation of Novel Female Superheroes in Contemporary Cinema
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode
Completed supervision
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2024
Master Philosophy
'Beware of inquisitive women': Female Spies in WWII Cinema
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
The Presence of Performance and the Stakes of Serial Drama: Accrual, Transience, Companionship
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Profoundly Disturbing: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Greg Hainge, Dr Lisa Bode
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2020
Master Philosophy
Absence, Presence, and Presences: An Aesthetic Evaluation of Twin Peaks: The Return
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Characteristics and Cultural Function of the Television Auteur Showrunner in the Digital Age
Associate Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Docucharacters: Public Persona as Character in Film, Television, and Fandom
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Australian press constructions of the 2002 Bali bombing: differing imaginings of the nation and its place in the world
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor David Carter
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
"A present of things past": Re-imagining Medieval Masculinities in Contemporary Media and Practice
Associate Advisor
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Creating Heritage in the Australian Historical Miniseries 1978-1995
Associate Advisor
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
The Science Wars and Stargate SG-1: An Exploration of Science within Science Fiction Television
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Philip Almond
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2013
Master Philosophy
Breaking Bad and Dignity: Possibilities of Character in the Television Fiction Series
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
New media and minors: the production ecology of Australian children's television from 2006-11
Associate Advisor
Media
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- History - television
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- Television history
- Videogames
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