Max Sexton

Max Sexton is a university lecturer. His main academic interests are in television drama. His first book, Small Screen, Expanded Universe, published by Rowman and Littlefield (2015) explores a range of key moments in the use of science fiction on television. His second book, Secular Magic and the Moving Image: Mediated Forms and Modes of Reception, published by Bloomsbury (2017) is about the live TV performance, presentation and representation of magic and illusion within the moving image. His third book from Bloomsbury is about 'high-end' US TV drama, including shows such as Stranger Things, Leftovers, The Knick and Fargo.

He has also contributed chapters to other books, including Perform: Directing for the Screen and The Routledge Companion to Adaptation.

As well as his academic career, Max is a novelist! He is the author of Ghosts. From the cool cosmopolitanism of New York to a remote and isolated corner of England, an unstoppable supernatural horror is intent on claiming its victim, a young girl who has been promised to an ancient evil... His new novel, Priestess, a supernatural chiller with overtones of the 'weird' which is about the battle between a powerful psychic and a satanic priestess, is now looking for a major publisher.