Joceline AndersenAssistant Professor | Faculty of Arts

Homepage URL: https://www.jocelineandersen.com/

Research Interests

community building through video and image sharing, film festivals, public relations and educational cinema, pedagogical and training film and video, documentary film, social media, media training, acting and performance in cinema, celebrity studies, early and classical Hollywood cinema, best practices for media scholars using copyrighted media in research and education

Education

PhD (Communication Studies), McGill, 2016
MA (Cinema Studies), University of Toronto, 2009
BA (English and Cinema Studies), University of Toronto, 2007

Publications

Book:
Stars and Silhouettes: A History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood. Wayne State University Press, October 2020.

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

"Clearcuts and ecohorror: mediating visceral reactions to forestry practices in video." Somatechnics. vol. 16, no. 1 (April 2026).

"Livelihoods and lifecycles: dialogs of sustainability in film and video of the Canadian forest products industry." Environmental Communication. vol. 19, no. 5 (July 2025).

"Bad Blood: Serial Killers, True Crime, and the Racial Imaginary in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt." Canadian Journal of Film Studies 33.1, 2024.

"Top 10 Everything: WatchMojo and the monetization of fan culture on YouTube." Cinephile 14.1, 2020.

"Now You've Got the Shiveries: Affect, Intimacy, and the ASMR Whisper Community." Television & New Media 16.8 (December 2015): 683-700.

"From the Ground Up: Transforming the Inside Out LGBT Film and Video Festival of Toronto." Canadian Journal of Film Studies 21.1 (Spring 2012): 38-57.

"The Body of the Machine: Computer Interfaces in American Popular Cinema Since 1982." Projections 5.2 (Winter 2011): 75-95.

Book chapters:
"Unedited farming: Private accounts, farmer fails, and food culture on Instagram." Food Instagram. Eds. Emily Contois and Zenia Kish. University of Illinois Press, 2022.

Forthcoming:
"Co-Viewing the Forest," Media Fields 19 (2026).

Courses Taught

Courses in English, Film, Media, and Commmunication Studies

Professional Affiliations

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC), Canadian Communication Association (CCA)