About

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

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

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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