Jamie Sexton

Associate Professor Jamie Sexton is affiliated with Northumbria University's Design Arts and Creative Industries. Their academic work spans film studies, musicology, and cultural theory. Holding a PhD (Awarded 2001), their research focuses on avant-garde film, hauntological soundscapes, indie music cultures, and transmedia storytelling. Notable works include Anonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s (2025) and analyses of cult cinema's evolving trajectories.

Research interests include the interplay between audiovisual media and cultural memory, with emphasis on experimental film practices, library music's recontextualization, and the socio-political dimensions of indie subcultures. Recent scholarship explores hauntological aesthetics in digital media and the evolution of horror soundscapes in 1970s cinema.

Education:

• PhD Awarded: 30 June 2001

Key Research Themes:

• Avant-Garde Film and Sound Experiments
• Cultural Memory & Archival Sound Practices
• Indie Music/Subculture Intersections
• Cinema Cultures & Genre Hybridity
• Hauntology & Digital Nostalgia

Publications demonstrate a focus on interdisciplinary media studies, with recent works analyzing transmedia storytelling in Julian House projects and the role of electronic music in constructing paranormal atmospheres. Active in academic editing, Sexton co-edited volumes like Anonymous Sounds and contributed to Experimental British Television (2015). Their research bridges historical media analysis with contemporary digital media critiques.