Jason Lee (CJP Lee) is the author and editor of 20 books with well-known publishers including Bloomsbury and Palgrave, examining through critical and creative work some of the central issues of our time, from surveillance to digital cultures, indigenous cultures, child abuse, far-right extremism, and trauma and mental health. Professor at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, CJP Lee is a chartered psychologist and a British Academy Innovation Fellow (22-24), working on equality with Jones Bamber Productions. During this time he founded Evolution Film (https://evolutionfilm.org). Lee was previously Professor of Culture and Creative Writing and is the founding head of DMU’s Leicester Media School/Deputy Dean Technology. He is the Transgressive Media Culture series editor for Amsterdam University Press who published his 2018 monograph Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media. Lee’s novels include Dr Cipriano’s Cell which for Will Self is “Foucault on ketamine, a change in the weather”, and Unholy Days which has been taught in Spain and the UK.

Latest Interview

Media expert awarded British Academy funding to examine inequality in TV and film industry

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2022/april/media-expert-awarded-british-academy-funding-to-examine-inequality-in-tv-and-film-industry.aspx

It was great to contribute work on film and PTSD to this edited collection published by Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Normalizing-Mental-Illness-and-Neurodiversity-in-Entertainment-Media-Quieting/Johnson-Olson/p/book/9780367820527

Resist!: Protest Media and Popular Culture in the Brexit-Trump Era – 9781786615701 (rowman.com)

New Book Series From Amsterdam University Press 

https://www.aup.nl/en/series/transgressive-media-culture

Latest Book Available From Waterstones

https://www.waterstones.com/book/nazism-and-neo-nazism-in-film-and-media/jason-lee/9789089649362

Reviews

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327321195_Book_Review_Nazism_and_Neo-Nazism_in_Film_and_Media_by_Jason_Lee_Journal_Open_Screens

https://openscreensjournal.com/articles/10.16995/os.10/

Podcasts & Interviews & Books

Podcast on Awards Ceremonies

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/phoenix-cinema-leicester/phoenix-talks

BBC Radio Leicester Interview

https://soundcloud.com/simon-dmu-walsh/bbc-radio-leicester-prof-jason-lee-ben-jackson

Other Books Available from WH Smiths & Waterstones

https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/pervasive-perversions/9781853439131

https://www.waterstones.com/books/search/term/jason+lee

Cordite Poetry Review

Osmosis