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Dr. James Slaymaker

Dr. James Slaymaker

Teaching fellow, Film Studies

Biography

Dr James Slaymaker is a filmmaker and cinema scholar. He holds an MA (2018) and PhD (2022) in Film Studies from the University of Southampton. His research interests include essay filmmaking, European cinema, digital media cultures, and avant-garde cinema. His short films have been featured on Fandor, MUBI, and The Film Stage, as well as screening at the London DIY Film Festival, the Concrete Dream Film Festival, the InShort Film Festival and The Straight Jacket Film Festival. His articles have been published in Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies, McSweeney"s, Kinoscope, The Interactive Film and Media Journal, and others. His first book is 'Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Mann' (Telos Publishing, 2022). His second book, the monograph Essay Cinema in the Digital Era, is forthcoming from Palgrave MacMillan.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • James Slaymaker, Essay Cinema in the Digital Age, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024Book, 2024
  • James Slaymaker, 'The Age of Visible Machines is Over': Navigating the Simulated Image, Epistemological Uncertainty and the Waning of the Index in the Late Digital Works of Harun Farocki, Interactive Film and Media Journal, 3, (2), 2023Journal Article, 2023
  • James Slaymaker, 'Enter The Memory': Interactivity, Authorship, and the Digital Database in Chris Marker's Immemory and Ouvroir., BAFTSS Open Screens, 6, (1), 2023Journal Article, 2023
  • James Slaymaker, Origins Of The 21st Century: The Impact of Digital Technology on The Construction of The Cinematic Essay, Interactive Film and Media Journal, 2, (3), 2023, p191 - 205Journal Article, 2023
  • James Slaymaker, In The Shadow of Women: Frustrated Gazes and Thwarted Desire in José Luis Guerín's In The City Of Sylvia, 20, (1), 2022, p191-205Journal Article, 2022
  • James Slaymaker, Images of the World and the Inscription of War: Brian De Palma"s Domino and Redacted, Film International, 18, (1), 2022, p147 - 158Journal Article, 2022
  • 'Just Being Transparent, Baby': Surveillance Culture, Digitization, and Self-Regulation in Paul Schrader's The Canyons in, editor(s)Michelle Moore , Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader., Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp155 - 170, [James Slaymaker]Book Chapter, 2020
  • James Slaymaker, Cinema Never Dies: Abbas Kiarostami's 24 Frames and The Ontology of The Digital Image, Senses of Cinema, (88), 2019Journal Article, 2019
  • James Slaymaker, I Reach Out My Hand and What Do I Feel?: Thematising Digitization in Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, (84), 2017Journal Article, 2017
  • James Slaymaker, Late Capitalist Atrocity Exhibition: Abel Ferrara"s Welcome To New York, Senses of Cinema, 2016Journal Article, 2016
  • James Slaymaker, Half-Baked: The Beach Bum and the Follies of Harmony Korine, Film International, 17, (3), 2019, p127 - 131Journal Article