Joshua Schulze

Originally from South Africa, Joshua grew up in the UK and received both his MA and BA from the University of Warwick. He researches the relationship between materiality, resources, and racialized labor across film and media 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 work has been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowed Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center and the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2024-2025.

Selected publications

• 'The Oil Paintings in the Department Store: The Robe and Racialized Tastemaking in 1950s Detroit,' American Quarterly 76, no. 2 (2024): 165-187.
• 'Drawing blood: The forms and ethics of animated violence in Watership Down,' in Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence, ed. Catherine Lester (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 193-205.
• 'On-screening and Off-screening,' Screening the Past 46 (2022).
• 'Green Screens: The Materiality and Environmental Impact of the Desktop Film,' Imago. Studi di cinema e media 23 (2022): 177-194.