Contact:

Dr. Philippa Gates

Associate Professor; Film Studies Coordinator/Advisor

Contact Information

Email: pgates@wlu.ca
Phone: 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

• PhD in Film and Visual Culture (Exeter, UK) 

• MA in History of Cinema and Popular Culture (Exeter, UK)

• 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