Auteur: Philippa Gates

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, tex …

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, tex …

Detecting Men examines the history of the Hollywood detective genre and the ways that detective films have negotiated changing social attitudes toward masculinity, heroism, law enforcement, and justi …

Finalist for the 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical Category presented by the Mystery Writers of America In this extensive and authoritative study of over 300 films, Philippa Gates ex …

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating …

Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when …

Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when …