Philippa Gates is Professor in Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her teaching and research focuses on gender, age, and race in classical and contemporary Hollywood films and she has published the books Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film (2006), Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film (2011), and Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas (2012). Her current book project explores the representation of Chinese Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood films.
Dr. Gates will be participating in our Saturday Lunchtime Panel:‘Women in Film: Past, Present and Future’
