Jason Jacobs

Jacobs is a scholar of film and television. He published on television history and aesthetics and now writes mostly about film. He 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. His critical account of the television show Deadwood (Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute, 2012) is part of the BFI TV Classics series, and he wrote a critical study of its author David Milch for Manchester University Press. More recent works include, Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives for SUNY Press Horizons of Cinema series and (with Alison Taylor) Nicolas Winding Refn: Neon, Evil, and Expressionism in the same series. With Frances Bonner he wrote, The Persistance of Television: People, Programmes and Practices that Endure for Bloomsbury. Film and Television as Art Forms, especially contemporary debates about judgement and value; The history of television and television streaming, which connects textual production to institutional, commercial and technological contexts; Aesthetics as a way of knowing the world, and as a way of thwarting or impeding knowledge about reality

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