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

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

, where she was taught by Stuart Hall,

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, and David Lodge. Along with

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

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. 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

film studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies. ...

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 ''

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'' and '' Sight and Sound'', 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 American and Australian actress and producer. Known for her work across various film and television productions from several genres, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid act ...

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

Baz Luhrmann Mark Anthony Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962), known professionally as Baz Luhrmann, is an Australian film director, producer, writer and actor. With projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music and recording industries, he is re ...

*''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 by the British-based filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey, and features Pamela Brown and Finlay Currie. Plot Joan Webster is a 25-year-old ...

'') *''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, north London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951. The com ...

*''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) was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956. Kelly ...

;

; 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 Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy; January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966) was an American film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress who was active in Hollywood in the 1920s. In her later life, she abandoned design ...

; Rudolph Valentino; Salome;

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

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

Jane Campion Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films ''The Piano'' (1993) and '' The Power of the Dog'' (2021), for which she has received a tot ...

; Cinema of Australia * '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 actress. The youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed ...

; Marie Antoinette;

Biopics A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudra ...

* '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.

; Cinema of Australia * ‘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 orchestral piece 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 energy of the French capital ...

'' *‘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 ...

;

*' "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 *‘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 blonde bombshell, much in the style of Americans Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. Dors was p ...

*'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.

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;

Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include '' Near Dark'' (1987), '' Point Break'' (1991), '' Strange Days'' (1995), '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002), ''The Hurt Loc ...

*'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

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(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 The Gainsborough melodramas were a sequence of films produced by the British film studio Gainsborough Pictures between 1943 and 1947 which conformed to a melodramatic style.Brooke, Michael. (2014)Gainsborough Melodrama Screenonline British Film Ins ...

*'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, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir '' Raging Bull: My ...

;

Martin Scorsese Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of many major accolades, inclu ...

*'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, in Paterson, New Jersey) 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'' (1 ...

*'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

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(ed.), ''Auteurs and Authorship: A Reader'', Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Raoul Walsh;

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, chal ...

References

External links

University of Southampton web page
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Pam Cook's personal websitePam Cook's bfiwatch blogPam Cook's fashion>film blog
{{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