Julian Cornell
Part-time Faculty
jc266@nyu.edu
619 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Friday 5:00-6:00
B.A., Film Studies, Wesleyan University, 1987
M.A., Film & Television, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, 2011
Julian Cornell’s primary research and teaching areas are American, Scandinavian, and Japanese cinema and genre cinema, including disaster movies, science fiction, children’s films, animation, and documentary. His work on children’s films, apocalyptic disaster movies, and bad taste has been widely published. He has written for Vice.com and for the film analysis Website ScreenPrism.com. His current research project is an exploration of media narratives and social media responses to mass shootings and the mythology of gun violence in American society. Cornell teaches Media at the Gallatin School For Individualized Study, Film in the Tisch School of the Arts, and Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY. He has also taught Film Studies and Screenwriting at Wesleyan University. Prior to teaching, he spent a decade in Scheduling and Network Programming at HBO and Cinemax, and in independent film production.
Awards & Honors
2021
Julian Cornell’s primary research and teaching areas are American, Scandinavian, and Japanese cinema and genre cinema, including disaster movies, science fiction, children’s films, animation, and documentary. His work on children’s films, apocalyptic disaster movies, and bad taste has been widely published. He has written for Vice.com and for the film analysis Website ScreenPrism.com. His current research project is an exploration of media narratives and social media responses to mass shootings and the mythology of gun violence in American society. Cornell teaches Media at the Gallatin School For Individualized Study, Film in the Tisch School of the Arts, and Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY. He has also taught Film Studies and Screenwriting at Wesleyan University. Prior to teaching, he spent a decade in Scheduling and Network Programming at HBO and Cinemax, and in independent film production.
Teaching and Research Interests
science fiction and disaster fictions; documentary and non-fiction film and television; cinemas of Germany Japan and Scandinavia; musicals film and politics; film and religion; new media
Courses
2023 January
This Mediated Life: How Media Narratives Make Us Who We Are
2023 Spring
The Cultural Politics of Bad Taste
2023 Fall
This Mediated Life: How Media Narratives Make Us Who We Are
2022 January
This Mediated Life: How Media Narratives Make Us Who We Are
2022 Spring
The Cultural Politics of Bad Taste
2022 Fall
This Mediated Life: How Media Narratives Make Us Who We Are
2021 January
This Mediated Life: An Introduction to the Study of Mass Media
