About

Jason Lee (also known as CJP Lee) is the author and/or editor of 20 books with well-known publishers including Bloomsbury and Palgrave, examining through critical and creative work 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, Lee is a chartered psychologist and a British Academy Innovation Fellow (22-24), working on equality in the film industry with Jones Bamber Productions. 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. His latest novel is ready for pre-order with the publisher, Close To The Bone on this link https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DFLR6BC9

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

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Cover Image

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-screenwriting