Doctoral Candidate
About
Originally from South Africa, Joshua grew up in the UK and received both his MA and BA from the University of Warwick. He is interested in the relationship between materiality, resources, and various forms of undervalued, undocumented, and often racialized labor across film history and into the digital era. His dissertation, "Working below below-the-line: race, labor, and resources in Classical Hollywood," develops a methodology for tracing such labor through a range of visual and written materials, as well as locating it within broader social, political, and industrial shifts. His research is supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowed Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center.
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.
- 'On-screening and Off-screening,' Screening the Past 46 (December 2022).
- '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.
- 'James Wan's Dead Space: The Conjuring Films, Siegfried Kracauer and the Revenge of Physical Reality,' in The Cinema of James Wan: Critical Essays, edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards (Jefferson: McFarland, 2022), 143-154.
- "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.