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Jason Jacobs is a cultural historian of screen media focusing particularly on television, film and computer screens. A graduate of the University of Warwick and the University of East Anglia in the UK, he has published extensively on television (both British and American), from early to contemporary television.

His monographs include:

• The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama (Oxford U.P, 2000), which explored the relations between aesthetics, technology and institutions in the development of early television.
• Body Trauma TV (British Film Institute, 2003), which examined contemporary anxieties about the body as they were played out in television hospital dramas.
• Deadwood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), one of the earliest full-length critical works on the ground-breaking television series.

He is Professor in Film & Television Studies with the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland.

Jason Jacobs was a project leader on AustLit's ScreenLit project.