Philippe Mather
Associate Professor
Media, Art, and Performance
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Dr. Philippe Mather teaches film studies for Campion College at the University of Regina. He has recently published a book on Stanley Kubrick's career as a photojournalist, in which he argues that Kubrick's better known work as a filmmaker owes much to the post-war visual aesthetics of photomagazines, as well as their dominant themes and storytelling conventions. His current research focuses on orientalism in film, specifically Western representations of the city-state of Singapore. He plans to develop a typology of orientalist tropes based in part on the work of Edward Saïd. He has an ongoing interest in science-fiction film, which was the topic of his doctoral dissertation, where he proposed a semiotic definition of the genre. He has also taught courses on film music, a frequently overlooked topic due to its allegedly technical nature, an impression that he always seeks to demystify.
Research Interest
Orientalism in Film, Film Music, Theories of Genre and Authorship, Stanley Kubrick, Science-Fiction.
