Pam Cook (born 6 January 1943) is

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in Film at the

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. She was educated at Sir William Perkins's School, Chertsey, Surrey and

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, where she was taught by Stuart Hall,

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, and David Lodge. Along with

Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist and filmmaker. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught ...

and Claire Johnston, she was a pioneer of 1970s Anglo-American

feminist film theory Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second-wave feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the United States. With the advancements in film throughout the years ...

. Her collaboration with Claire Johnston on the work of Hollywood film director

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provoked debate among feminist film scholars over the following decades. In the mid-1980s, Cook co-authored and edited the leading

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textbook '' The Cinema Book'' for the

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(BFI). From 1985 to 1994, she was Associate Editor and contributor to the BFI magazines ''

Monthly Film Bulletin The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those wi ...

'' and ''

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'', before becoming a lecturer at the

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. In 1998, she was appointed the first Professor of European Film and Media at the

. Since her retirement in 2006, she continues to publish books and articles on moving image history and culture. In 2007, she set up the independent campaigning blog bfiwatch to monitor developments at the BFI,See bfiiwatch blog, external link below. and she has extended her work to scholarly videography.

Publications

Books

*''Dancing with Pixels: Undoing Representation'', London: Open Book, 2019. *''Nicole Kidman'', London: BFI Publishing/Palgrave, 2012.

Nicole Kidman Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress and producer. Known for Nicole Kidman on screen and stage, her work in film and television productions across many genres, she has consistently ranked among the world ...

*''Baz Luhrmann'', London: BFI Publishing/Palgrave, 2010.

Baz Luhrmann Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director, producer, writer, and actor whose various projects extend from film and television into opera, theatre, music, and the recording industries. He is regarded by ...

*''The Cinema Book, Third Edition'', London: British Film Institute, 2007. *''Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema'', Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2005. *''I Know Where I'm Going!'', BFI Film Classics, London: British Film Institute, 2002. (on ''

I Know Where I'm Going! ''I Know Where I'm Going!'' is a 1945 romance film directed and written by the British filmmakers Powell and Pressburger, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown (actress), Pamela ...

'') *''The Cinema Book, Second Edition'', London: British Film Institute, 1999. With Mieke Bernink. *''Gainsborough Pictures'', London and Washington: Cassell, 1997.

Gainsborough Pictures Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, east London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951. The co ...

*''Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema'', London: British Film Institute, 1996. *''Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader'', London: Scarlet Press/Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. With Philip Dodd. *''The Cinema Book'', London: British Film Institute, 1985. The Cinema Book

Selected articles

* 'Revisiting Performance: Nicole Kidman's Enactment of Stardom', in Sabrina Qiong Yu and Guy Austin (eds). ''Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

'Because She's Worth It: The Natural Blonde from Grace Kelly to Nicole Kidman'
''Celebrity Studies'' 2015, special dossier on Blondes in Cinema.

Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982), also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. ...

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; Grace of Monaco
'Picturing Natacha Rambova: Design and Celebrity Performance in the 1920s'
''Screening the Past'' 40, September 2015, special dossier on Women and the Silent Screen. Natacha Rambova;

Rudolph Valentino Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor who starred in several well-known sile ...

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Salome Salome (; , related to , "peace"; ), also known as Salome III, was a Jews, Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias. She was granddaughter of Herod the Great and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. She is known from the New T ...

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Alla Nazimova Alla Aleksandrovna Nazimova (, born Marem-Ides Leventon; June 3 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. May 22 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian-American actress, director, producer and scre ...

'Text, Paratext and Subtext: Reading ''Mildred Pierce'' as Maternal Melodrama'
''SEQUENCE: Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music'', 2.2, 2015. Mildred Pierce (miniseries); Mildred Pierce; Mildred Pierce;

Todd Haynes Todd Haynes (; born January 2, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender ...

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Videography Videography involves capturing moving images on electronic media (such as: videotape, direct to disk recording, or solid state storage), and can include streaming media. It encompasses both video production and post-production methods. Historic ...

'Dancing with Pixels: Digital Artefacts, Memory and the Beauty of Loss'
''The Cine-Files'' 7, Fall 2014.

In the Mood for Love ''In the Mood for Love'' () is a 2000 romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Wong Kar-wai. A co-production between Hong Kong and France, the film follows a man ( Tony Leung) and a woman ( Maggie Cheung) in 1962 who discover tha ...

;

* Sweetie''′, ''Metro'' ustralia181, Winter 2014. Sweetie (film);

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;

Cinema of Australia The cinema of Australia began with the 1906 production of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received international recogni ...

* 'History in the Making: Sofia Coppola's ''Marie Antoinette'' and the New Auteurism', in Tom Brown and Belen Vidal (eds). ''The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture'' (AFI Readers), New York: Routledge, 2013.

Sofia Coppola Sofia Carmina Coppola ( , ; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and former actress. She has List of awards and nominations received by Sofia Coppola, won an Academy Awards, Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Can ...

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Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette (; ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last List of French royal consorts, queen of France before the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic. She was the ...

; Biopics * 'Beyond Adaptation: Mirrors, Memory and Melodrama in Todd Haynes's ''Mildred Pierce'', ''Mildred Pierce'' dossier, ''Screen'' 54:3, Autumn 2013. Mildred Pierce (miniseries); Mildred Pierce; Mildred Pierce;

'Labours of Love: In Praise of Fan Websites'
''Frames'' 1 (1), July 2012. * 'Another Story: Myth and History in ''Bonnie and Clyde'' (1967)', in Tom Brown and James Walters (eds), ''Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory'', London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. '' Bonnie and Clyde'' * 'Sofia Coppola', in Yvonne Tasker (ed.), ''Fifty Contemporary Film Directors'', Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2010.

* ‘Transnational Utopias: Baz Luhrmann and Australian Cinema’, ''Transnational Cinemas'' 1 (1), 2010.

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* ‘On Memorialising Gainsborough Studios’, ''Journal of British Cinema and Television'' 6 (2), 2009.

* ‘Whatever Happened to BFI Publishing?’, ''Cinema Journal'' 47 (4), Summer 2008. The Cinema Book * ‘''An American in Paris''’, in Mandy Merck (ed.), ''America First: Naming the Nation in US Film'', Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2007. ''

An American in Paris ''An American in Paris'' is a jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) for orchestra by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928. It was inspired by the time that Gershwin had spent in Paris and evokes the sights and en ...

'' *‘Portrait of a Lady: Sofia Coppola’, ''Sight and Sound'' vol. 16, no. 11, November 2006.

*'Rethinking Nostalgia: ''In the Mood for Love'' and ''Far from Heaven, in ''Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema'', Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2005.

Wong Kar-wai Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films are characterised by nonlinear narratives, atmospheric music, and vivid cinematography involving bold, saturated colours. A pivotal figure o ...

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*' "Sean Connery Is James Bond": Re-fashioning British Masculinity in the 1960s', in Rachel Moseley (ed.), ''Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity'', London: British Film Institute, 2005. With Claire Hines.

Sean Connery Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to Portrayal of James Bond in film, portray the fictional British secret agent James Bond (literary character), James Bond in motion pic ...

*‘The Trouble with Sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell Phenomenon’, in Bruce Babington (ed.), ''British Stars and Stardom: From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery'', Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.

Diana Dors Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 19314 May 1984) was an English actress and singer. Dors came to public notice as a Bombshell (slang), blonde bombshell, much in the style of Americans Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Mamie Van ...

*'No Fixed Address: The Women's Picture from ''Outrage'' to ''Blue Steel, in Steve Neale and Murray Smith (eds), ''Contemporary Hollywood Cinema'', London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

Ida Lupino Ida Lupino (4 February 1918Recorded in ''Births Mar 1918'' Camberwell Vol. 1d, p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index – 3 August 1995) was a British actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-y ...

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Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most i ...

*'Neither Here Nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume Drama', in Andrew Higson (ed.), ''Dissolving Views: Key Articles on British Cinema'', London and Washington: Cassell, 1996. *Outrage'' (1950)', in Annette Kuhn (ed.), ''Queen of the 'B's: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera'', Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 1995.

; Outrage *'Border Crossings: Women and Film in Context', in Pam Cook and Philip Dodd (eds), ''Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader'', London: Scarlet Press/Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. *'Women in the Western', in Edward Buscombe (ed.), ''The BFI Companion to the Western'', London: British Film Institute/André Deutsch, 1988. Reprinted in Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickman (eds), ''The Western Reader'', New York: Limelight, 1998. *Mandy'': Daughter of Transition', in Charles Barr (ed.), ''All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema'', London: British Film Institute, 1986. Mandy (film) *'Melodrama and the Women's Picture', in Sue Aspinall and Robert Murphy (eds), ''BFI Dossier 18: Gainsborough Melodrama'', London: British Film Institute, 1983. Gainsborough melodramas *'Masculinity in Crisis? Tragedy and Identification in ''Raging Bull, ''Screen'' vol. 23, no. 3/4, Sept/Oct 1982.

Raging Bull ''Raging Bull'' is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent and Nicholas Colasanto (in his final film role). The film ...

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Martin Scorsese Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Martin Scorsese, many accolades, including an Academ ...

*'Duplicity in ''Mildred Pierce, in E. Ann Kaplan (ed.), ''Women in Film Noir'', London: British Film Institute, 1978. Revised edition 1998. '' Mildred Pierce'' *'Exploitation Films and Feminism', ''Screen'' vol.17, no. 2, Summer 1976.

Stephanie Rothman Stephanie Rothman (born November 9, 1936) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s, especially ''The Student Nurses'' (1970) and ''Terminal Isla ...

*'Approaching the Work of Dorothy Arzner', in Claire Johnston (ed.), ''Dorothy Arzner: Towards a Feminist Cinema'', London: British Film Institute, 1975.

*'The Place of Woman in the Cinema of Raoul Walsh', in Phil Hardy (ed.), ''Raoul Walsh'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival, 1974. With Claire Johnston. Reprinted in Barry Keith Grant (ed.), ''Auteurs and Authorship: A Reader'', Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh (born Albert Edward Walsh; March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent cinema actor George Walsh. He wa ...

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The Revolt of Mamie Stover ''The Revolt of Mamie Stover'' is a 1951 novel by William Bradford Huie about a young woman from Mississippi who goes to Hollywood to work as an actress. Driven into prostitution, she moves to Honolulu, works at a brothel and takes it over, challe ...

References

External links

University of Southampton web page
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Pam 1943 births Living people Feminist studies scholars Film theorists Academics of the University of Southampton Academics of the University of East Anglia People from Farnborough, Hampshire People educated at Sir William Perkins's School Alumni of the University of Birmingham