Jason Jacobs is Professor of Film and Television in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has written extensively on the history and aesthetics of television, and on screen style more broadly. His books include The Intimate Screen (2000), Body Trauma TV (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2003), Deadwood (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2012), David Milch (2019) and Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives (2023). He is co-editor, with Steven Peacock, of Television Aesthetics and Style (Bloomsbury, 2013) and co-author, with Alison Taylor, of Nicolas Winding Refn: Neon, Evil, and Expressionism (forthcoming 2027).