Faculty and Staff

Coates, P
Professor

Film Studies

Polish cinema in general and Kieslowski in particular, European cinema, literature and film, documentary, cinema and religion, theories of realism and fantasy, film theory.

19th century visual culture, early cinema; history of screen practice; German cinema, European avant-garde, film theory.

World cinema; Latin American and Argentine cinemas; film history; historical representations and the relationship between film and historiography; documentary filmmaking.

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Theory and criticism; nineteenth-century literature and culture, both Romantic and Victorian, but especially Romantic and the aftermath of Romanticism in Victorian culture; psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, and histories of psychoanalysis and psychiatry; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy; cultural studies and popular culture; American film musicals.

National Cinemas; Polish and East-Central European Cinema; European Cinema, Film Theory; Film History; Mikhail Bakhtin; Reception Theory

Film Studies/Cultural Studies/Literary Studies: Canadian Cinemas, First Nations Cinemas, film theory, genre theory, critical theory, critical race studies, gender and sexuality, national cinema, postcolonial theory, documentary, melodrama, class, ideology.

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Research Fields: radio and television; media constructions of masculinity; the culture of celebrity; Hollywood cinema and music industries; gender and sound reproduction technology.

Critical race studies, postcolonial studies, film theory and history, popular German cinema, silent film.

International indigenous cinemas, Canadian cinema, Australian and New Zealand cinema, international queer cinema, film theory; cultural studies and critical theory, particularly queer and feminist theory and critical race studies; postcolonial theory, globalization, citizenship, and sexuality; Canadian literature; national (Canadian and Australian) popular cultures and their relationship to the US; science fiction.

Transnational Modernisms, Film, Drama, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and theories of Modernity.

Orientalisme; musées; Beaux-Arts; cinéma;sciences; approches pluridisciplinaires.

Representations of the postwar period in contemporary visual culture; ways in which cultural memory is communicated visually in art, film and the mass media.

Research Fields: critical theory; television
studies; cultural studies of race, gender and sexuality.

American cinema history, international queer cinema, African-American cinema, film theory, television studies, critical race studies, feminist and queer theory, genre theory, audience/reception studies, cultural studies, and theories of stardom.