About Jazz Walker

Jazz is mid career librarian with experience in academic, public, and archive libraries. Currently she is a popular Arts and Entertainment subject specialist with specific interest in film. She has a particular fondness for horror films and their socio-political implications.

Arts and entertainment subject specialist librarian

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NBN Episodes hosted by Jazz:

Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

November 12, 2024

The Myth of Harm

Sarah Cleary
Hosted by Jazz Walker

The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to ha…

Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)

September 18, 2024

Through a Noir Lens

Sheri Chinen Biesen
Hosted by Jazz Walker

Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmar…

Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

September 10, 2024

The Metamodern Slasher Film

Steve Jones
Hosted by Jazz Walker

It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most orig…