Jason Landrum, M.A., Ph.D.

Dr. Jason Landrum is a film scholar and theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and American film and television. His most recent publication traces the role of the gothic mode and how it gives shape to twenty-first century anxieties about digital technology by examining three key films from the year 1999--The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project, and The Sixth Sense.

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

Film Theory and History, with a specific focus on how crime is depicted across various genres, like the film noir, police procedural, gangster, gothic horror, and documentary genres.