Jackson, Kevin, 1955-2021

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Name (Latin)
Jackson, Kevin, 1955-2021
Name (Arabic)
جاكسون، كيفن، 1955-
Other forms of name
nne Jackson, Kevin (writer)
Jackson, Kevin, 1955-
Date of birth
1955
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Broadcasting
Pataphysics
Occupation
Producers and directors
Authors
Broadcasters
Motion picture producers and directors
Radio producers and directors
Television producers and directors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 17322840
Wikidata: Q6396592
Library of congress: n 90721255
Sources of Information
  • Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Apr. 1, 2010(Kevin Jackson; b. Jan. 3, 1955, London, England; Pembroke College, Cambridge, M.A., 1980; Independent (newspaper), London, England, associate arts editor, 1987-; works: Schrader on Schrader; A parent-teacher's guide to children's educational software; The language of cinema; etc.)
  • Lives of the great occultists, 2020:t.p. (Kevin Jackson)
  • Mayflower, 2020:t.p. (Kevin Jackson) back cover (Kevin Jackson is an English writer; has worked as a film-maker, radio producer and television director for the BBC; associate arts editor for The Independent)
  • Schrader on Schrader, 1990:t.p. (Kevin Jackson) colophon (deputy arts editor of The Independent)
  • Wikipedia, viewed 5 Jan. 2022:under Kevin Jackson, writer (Kevin Jackson (3 January 1955 - 10 May 2021) was an English writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and pataphysician. After teaching in the English Department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, he joined the BBC, first as a producer in radio and then as a director of short documentaries for television. In 1987 he was recruited to the arts pages of The Independent. He has been a freelance writer since the early 1990s and was a regular contributor to BBC radio programmes. Selected list of publications, includes Invisible forms, Letters of introduction, The language of cinema, The pataphysical flook, The worlds of John Ruskin, Chronicles of old London, Mayflower, The Queen's pirate, The Oxford book of money, The anatomy of melancholy, The book of hours, etc. [q.v.])
  • His The language of cinema, 1998:CIP t.p. (Kevin Jackson)
  • Tel. call to pub., 9/30/97(Kevin Jackson, b. Jan. 3, 1955)
  • A parent-teacher's guide to children's educational software, 1996:t.p. (Kevin Jackson)
  • Biog. resource center (Contemp. authots), Apr. 1, 2010(Kevin Jackson; b. Jan. 3, 1955, London, England; Pembroke College, Cambridge, M.A., 1980; Independent (newspaper), London, England, associate arts editor, 1987-; works: Schrader on Schrader; A parent-teacher's guide to children's educational software; The language of cinema; etc.)