Joshua Goodstein

Joshua Goodstein is a PhD student in the Film & Moving Image Studies program at Concordia University. Their research primarily examines film musicals and camp through an intersectional queer feminist perspective. Joshua’s MA thesis, “No Requiem: Camp Taste, Monstrosity, and the Abject in the Post-Classical Movie Musical” covered the issue of how the American film musical adapted and survived past its supposed death after the golden age, arguing that filmmakers behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Evita expanded the musical into the conventions of other film genres and forms of stardom, as well as a marked shift towards overt sympathy for the monstrous abject figure. He has been a fellow of the Palah Light Lab and HASTAC Scholars, and presented papers at conferences held by the Northeast Popular and American Culture Association and the Great American Songbook Foundation.

Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Russell

Research Interests: Film musicals, camp, cult cinema, stardom, intersectional queer theory and Hollywood cinema

Teaching / TAShips: Film History II (Fall 2025)

Favourite Film: The Apartment (Billy Wilder, US, 1960)