James Newton is Lecturer in Media and Film Practice and a filmmaker. He is the author of The Mad Max Effect (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Anarchist Cinema (Intellect, 2019).
After making multiple shorts, his first feature film, Black Lizard Tales, premiered at the Cine-Excess festival in 2020. In 2022 he completed his second feature called Katernica. Both films are available on Blu-ray through Darkside Releasing, and on Video on Demand through New Village Video.
He is currently in post-production on his third micro-budget feature film, When the Sun Stands Still, which is set for release at the end of 2024.
His podcast, Newton Talks, discusses topics related to film, cinema and culture, and includes interviews with filmmakers, artists, and writers. You can listen here: https://audioboom.com/channels/4992300.
In both his academic work and film practice, James is interested in the relationship between form and content, cult and exploitation cinema, underground film culture, and anarchism, radical politics, and subversion in popular culture. In The Mad Max Effect, he looks at the Mad Max series as being at the centre of multiple lines of exploitation cinema – from 70s car crash films, Australian genre pictures, transnational post-apocalypse action films from the 1980s, to online film culture in the 21st century. The Anarchist Cinema explores how aspects of anarchism have influenced film, and how anarchist theory can be used as a method to understand and interpret developments in cinema history.
James currently convenes modules which explore various forms of screen culture - from cinema, to television, to content creation in the digital age. He is the convener of the following modules - Making Media, Digital Storytelling, and Sound, Music, and the Cinema.
James particularly welcomes enquiries about supervision for postgraduate and PhD dissertations on the following topics and associated subject areas:
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