Wyatt D. Phillips
Dr. Phillips's work engages primarily in questions of the political economy and industrial practices of media production and circulation. His current projects include a co-edited collection on American Independent Cinema (Routledge, 2023), a co-edited volume on Camp TV of the 1960s (Oxford UP, 2023), and a monograph that considers the historical relationship between turn-of-the-century business culture and early Hollywood through the lens of the development and utilization of genre. Since arriving at Texas Tech in 2014, he has been active in bringing film to the Lubbock community and was recently recognized as one of the university's Integrated Scholars (2021).
Ph.D. New York University (Cinema Studies)
Select Publications
Screening American Independent Film, co-edited with Justin Wyatt (Routledge, 2023).
“Legitimating Top of the Lake: Jane Campion, the Film Fest, and the Miniseries,” in Prestige Television: Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America, edited by Seth Friedman and Amanda Keeler. Rutgers UP (2022), 170-188.
“Insuring Hollywood: A Movie Returns Index and the American Stock Market.” Co-authored with Dr. Davide Lauria (TTU Dept. of Math & Statistics). Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14.5 (2021): 189-221.
“A Cinema Under the Stars (and Stripes): David Milgram's Boulevard Drive-in Theatre and the Political-Economic Landscape of America's Post-War Drive-in Boom.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television 40.2 (2020): 275-296.
“Where did Superman's White Hat Go? Villainy and Heroism in Superman: Red Son,” in The Supervillain Reader, edited by Robert M. Peaslee and Rob Weiner (University of Mississippi Press, 2020), 337-348.
“Smokers, Club Films, and Blue Movies: A Cinematic Genealogy of the Stag Film.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 51.2 (2018): 133-158.
“Gilligan and Captain Kirk Have More in Common than You Think: 1960s Camp TV as an Alternative Genealogy for Cult Television.” Co-authored with Dr. Isabel Pinedo (Hunter College). Journal of Popular Television 6.1 (2018): 19-40.
“‘A Maze of Intricate Relationships': Mae D. Huettig and Early Forays into Film Industry Studies.” Film History 27.1 (2015): 135-163.
“O Cangaceiro (1953) and the Brazilian Northeastern: The Western ‘in the Land of the Sun',” in International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier, edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Scarecrow Press, 2014), 243-262.
Teaching
Recent courses have included:
Literature-to-Film Adaptation
American Cinema and Culture of the '60s and '70s
Serialized Fiction
American Independent Cinema
Texas Films and Filmmakers
The Road Movie
Film Genres: Hollywood Staples
Narrative Cinema
Introduction to Film Studies
The Origins of Mass Media
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Research Methods
Community Outreach
Dr. Phillips, along with his Film & Media Studies colleague Dr. Allison Whitney, programs and hosts a weekly Film Club at Lubbock's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema that screens and discusses new and repertory titles every Wednesday night, all year long.
Associate Professor
Film & Media Studies
Email: wyatt.phillips@ttu.edu
Office: 464
Department of English
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Address
P.O. Box 43091 Lubbock, TX 79409-3091 -
Phone
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Email
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