Julian Cornell

Julian Cornell’s primary research and teaching areas are American, Scandinavian, and Japanese cinema, as well as 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 and for the film analysis website ScreenPrism. 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.

Before teaching, he spent a decade in Scheduling and Network Programming at HBO and Cinemax, as well as in independent film production.