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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:
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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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2006
Journal Article
Television aesthetics: An infantile disorder
Jacobs, Jason (2006). Television aesthetics: An infantile disorder. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 3 (1), 19-33. doi: 10.3366/JBCTV.2006.3.1.19
2006
Journal Article
The television archive: Past, present, future
Jacobs, Jason (2006). The television archive: Past, present, future. Critical Studies in Television, 1 (1), 13-20.
2006
Journal Article
What's the Competition? [Book Review]
Jacobs, Jason (2006). What's the Competition? [Book Review]. Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, 38 (3), 118-120.
2006
Book Chapter
Al Swearengen, Philosopher King
Jacobs, Jason (2006). Al Swearengen, Philosopher King. Reading Deadwood: a western to swear by. (pp. 11-22) edited by Lavery, David. London: I. B. Tauris.
2006
Book Chapter
Television and history: Investigating the past
Jacobs, Jason (2006). Television and history: Investigating the past. Tele-visions: An introduction to studying television. (pp. 107-115) edited by Glen Creeber. London, United Kingdom: British Film Institute Publishing.
2005
Book Chapter
Violence and therapy in The Sopranos
Jacobs, Jason (2005). Violence and therapy in The Sopranos. The contemporary television series. (pp. 139-158) edited by Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
2005
Journal Article
Channel 5: The early years by Christine Fanthome [Book review]
Jacobs, Jason (2005). Channel 5: The early years by Christine Fanthome [Book review]. Media International Australia (114), 153-154.
2004
Book Chapter
Marty
Jacobs, Jason (2004). Marty. Fifty key television programmes. (pp. 115-119) edited by Glen Creeber. London: Arnold.
2004
Book Chapter
ER
Jacobs, Jason (2004). ER. Fifty key television programmes. (pp. 80-84) edited by Glen Creeber. London: Arnold.
2004
Book Chapter
Experimental and live TV in the US
Jacobs, Jason (2004). Experimental and live TV in the US. The television history book. (pp. 72-75) edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Jacobs. London: British Film Institute.
2004
Book Chapter
Charlie's Angels
Jacobs, Jason (2004). Charlie's Angels. Fifty key television programmes. (pp. 45-49) edited by Glen Creeber. London: Arnold.
2003
Book Chapter
Early Television in Great Britain (The Coronation)
Jacobs, Jason (2003). Early Television in Great Britain (The Coronation). The television history book. (pp. 69-72) edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Jacobs. London, United Kingdom: British Film Institute.
2003
Book
Body Trauma TV: The New Hospital Dramas
Jacobs, Jason (2003). Body Trauma TV: The New Hospital Dramas. London: British Film Institute.
2000
Book
The intimate screen : Early British television drama
Jacobs, Jason (2000). The intimate screen : Early British television drama. New York: Oxford University Press.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Identity and Representation of Novel Female Superheroes in Contemporary Cinema
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisa Bode
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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
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
Enquiries
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- 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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