Dr Jamie Sexton

Associate Professor

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

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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Anonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s, Johnston, N., Sexton, J., Roy, E. 20 Jun 2024
Introduction, Johnston, N., Roy, E., Sexton, J. 20 Jan 2024, Anonymous Sounds, London, Bloomsbury
Sampling the Obscure: The Recontextualization and Increased Value of Library Music, Sexton, J. 20 Jun 2024, Anonymous Sounds, London, Bloomsbury
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

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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