About Research Media
Biography
Dr Jon Hackett teaches on film and cultural theory, media history and industries, animation and popular culture. He has teaching interests in Hollywood and independent North American cinema, Japanese cinema and anime, and early cinema. He also teaches on media representations on the MA Human Trafficking, Migration and Organised Crime.
He has supervised undergraduate dissertations on special effects in film and television, French new wave cinema, virtual reality, and airports in the movies. He currently supervises two PhDs, on visual culture and illustration, and on film phenomenology and representations of death on screen.
Jon is currently writing a monograph for Bloomsbury, Scary Monsters: Masculinity, Monstrosity and Popular Music Culture, with Dr Mark Duffett of the University of Chester. This book will case study various popular music performers across several decades associated in varying ways with discourses on monstrosity and masculinity.
Jon has recently published on the Sheffield post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire, as well as on the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard’s writings on cinema. He has also published on film philosophy and early cinema, as well as on 1970s glam rock. He has a book chapter in press on 1980s special effects technologies.
Before working at St Mary’s, Jon taught at Goldsmiths, University of East London and Université Paris 13. Jon has also worked in medical publishing, first of all as an editor and typesetter. Then as a publications manager he managed a portfolio of peer-reviewed journals, overseeing production, editorial, peer review, typesetting, fulfilment and distribution, in print and online.
Research
Recent publications
- ‘Productive boredom and unproductive labour: Cabaret Voltaire in the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire’, Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities, (London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, October 2017)
- ‘Discourse, Figure, Suture: Lyotard and Cinematic Space’, Acinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, September 2017)
- ‘Art, Artifice and Androgyny: Roxy Music’s Dandy Modernism’ in Clothing Cultures, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2015
- ‘The Ontogenesis of Cinematic Objects: Simondon, Marx and the Invention of Cinema’ in Platform: Journal of Media and Communication, Vol. 6, April 2015
In the news
An event to celebrate the launch of a book co-edited by Senior Lecturers at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, Lee Brooks, Mark Donnelly and Richard Mills, was held at the House of Commons last week.
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On Saturday 1 July 2017, the School of Arts and Humanities at St Mary’s University, Twickenham hosted a one-day research symposium with a woodland theme, entitled Beasts of the Forest: Denizens of the Dark Woods. Find out more...
Chris Blaine, one of director and writer duo the Blaine Brothers, visited St Mary’s University, Twickenham this month to speak to film and media students. Find out more...
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