Jason Lee (CJP Lee) is author/editor of 20 books examining the central issues of our time, from surveillance, digital cultures, indigenous cultures, child abuse, far-right extremism, and mental health. Professor of Film, Media, and Culture at De Montfort University, Lee is a chartered psychologist and currently a British Academy Innovation Fellow working with Jones Bamber Productions, Warner Bros. Lee was previously Professor of Culture and Creative Writing. He is the founding head of DMU’s Media School/Deputy Dean Technology. Lee 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.
Recent Work
Latest Interview
Media expert awarded British Academy funding to examine inequality in TV and film industry
It was great to contribute work on film and PTSD to this edited collection published by Routledge:
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://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
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