Dr. Philippa Gates
Associate Professor; Film Studies Coordinator/Advisor
Contact Information
Email: pgates@wlu.caPhone: 519-884-0710 ext.2476
Fax: 519.884.8307
Office Location: 3-153 Woods
Office Hours: Summer: by appointment only
Languages Spoken
English
Academic Background
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PhD in Film and Visual Culture (Exeter, UK)
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MA in History of Cinema and Popular Culture (Exeter, UK)
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BA (Hons) in Cinema Studies (Toronto)
Biography
Research Interests:
- Classical and Contemporary Hollywood film
- Gender (masculinity and feminism in film)
- Genre (action, detective, and war films)
- Race (Asian/American)
- Star studies and cultural studies
Current Project:
- Edited Collection (w/ L. Funnell): Trans/National Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas
Selected Publications:
Books
- Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film (authored) SUNY P (forth)
- Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film (authored) SUNY P (2006)
- The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film (co-edited) Greenwood P (2002)
Articles/Book Chapters
- “A Good Vintage or Damaged Goods? Clint Eastwood and Aging in Hollywood Film.” Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director--Vol 2. Ed. Leonard Engel (forthcoming).
- "Acting His Age?: The Resurrection of the 80s Action Heroes and their Aging Stars.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.4 (2010): 276-89.
- “The Maritorious Melodrama: Film Noir with a Female Detective.” Journal of Film and Video 61.3 (2009):24-39.
- “Softboiled Heroes: Investigating Englishness in the Classical Hollywood Detective Film.” Heroines and Heroes: Embodiment, Symbolism, Narratives & Identity. Ed. Chris Hart. Kingswinford: Midrash (2008). 98-111.
- "The Three Sam Spades: The Shifting Model of American Masculinity in the Three Films of The Maltese Falcon.” Framework 49.1 (2008): 7-26.
- “‘Fighting the Good Fight’: The Real and the Moral in the Contemporary Hollywood Combat Film.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.4 (2005): 297-310.
- “Manhunting: The Female Detective in the Contemporary Serial Killer Film.” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 24.1 (2004): 42-61.
- “Always a Partner in Crime: Black Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film.” The Journal of Popular Film and Television 32:1 (2004): 20-9.
- “The Man’s Film: Woo and the Pleasure of Male Melodrama.” The Journal of Popular Culture 35.1 (2001): 59-79.
Awards:
- Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award (2007)
Professional Activities:
- President of Film Studies Association of Canada (2010-12)
- Board member of Cinemateque Waterloo
- Co-editor of Film and Media Series for WLU Press
- Contributor to Crime Fiction Canada database
- Contributor to Crimeculture website
Additional Information
Courses Taught
Graduate
EN 691m: Women and Crime in Fiction and Film
EN 615: Film Spectatorship
EN 650: Hardboiled Fiction and Film
Undergraduate
FS 101: Film and Narrative
FS 103: Film and Genre
FS 243: Film Director as Artist
FS 249: The Detective Film
FS 257: The Western
FS 264: American Film 1929-69
FS 344: American Film Since '69
FS 443a: War in Literature and Film
FS 443d: Noir



