About
Joshua Schulze is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Film, Television, and Media, where he is writing a dissertation on the history of racialized labor during the Hollywood studio era. His research looks at the contributions of 'below-the-line' workers to studio productions, their working conditions, and how these changed and evolved during the Second World War. In addition, Joshua has teaching and research interests in the relationship between the horror genre and space, place, and the built environment, as well as environmental media studies.
Selected Publications:
- 'Drawing blood: The forms and ethics of animated violence in Watership Down,' in Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence, edited by Catherine Lester (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 193-205.
- 'Community's Human Laugh Track: neurodiversity in a metamodern sitcom,' in Autism in Film and Television: On the Island, edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022), 174-185.
- 'Green Screens: The Materiality and Environmental Impact of the Desktop Film,' Imago. Studi di cinema e media 23 (February 2022): 177-194.
- "A More Boxier Feel": Aspect Ratio, Architecture, and Ecology in A Cure for Wellness (2016),' CineAction 101 (December 2020).
- 'The ornamental and the monstrous: Exploring feminine architecture in Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977),' Horror Studies 10.1 (April 2019): 73-85.
- 'The Sacred Engine and the Rice Paddy: Globalization, Genre, and Local Space in the Films of Bong Joon-ho,' Journal of Popular Film and Television 47.1 (April 2019): 21-29.