Jason Landrum

No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film

My areas of interest are American film history, Hollywood genres, and psychoanalytic film theory, and I regularly teach Film Criticism, Film and Literature, and Gender and American Cinema. I have also recently taught graduate seminars on the topics of Film Noir, Slacker Cinema, the Films of 1999, and Digital Cinema.

My research focuses on psychoanalytic theory and American cinema, with an emphasis on concepts like desire, the gaze, and enjoyment. Recently, I have published two articles; the first analyzes the depiction of fatherhood in Breaking Bad, and the second explores a concept I call the digital Gothic in the Netflix series Stranger Things.

Education:
PhD, Oklahoma State University. MA, Texas Tech University. BA, Texas A&M University.

Publications:

"Lures, Dupes, and Deceptions." Introduction to INTERTEXTS: Lacanian Theory in the 21st CenturyNTERTEXTS, vol. 21, nos. 1-2, 2017, vii-xi.

"Nostalgia, Fantasy, and Loss: Stranger Things and the Digital Gothic." INTERTEXTS: Lacanian Theory in the 21st Century, vol. 21, nos. 1-2, 2017, pp.136-58.

"Say My Name: The Fantasy of Liberated Masculiniy in Breaking Bad." The Methods of Breaking Bad: Narrative, Character, and Ethics.  Eds. Jacob Blevins and Dafydd Wood.  McFarland Press, 2014, pp. 94-108.

“Cold-Blooded Coen Brothers: The Death Drive and No Country for Old Men.” No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film. Eds. Lynnea Chapman King, Rick Wallach, and Jim Welsh. Scarecrow Press, 2009, pp. 199-218.

“Hurt--Agony--Pain--Love It!: The Duty of Dissatisfaction in the Profiler Film.” International Journal of Zizek Studies: Zizek and Cinema, vol. 1, no.3, 2007.