Elizabeth Cowie ( ) is a British academic, author, and emeritus professor of

film studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various film theory, theoretical, history of film, historical, and film criticism, critical approaches to film, cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media stud ...

at the

University of Kent The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC) is a Collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. The university was granted its roya ...

Biography

Cowie has a degree in history, politics and sociology. After university, she found work in publishing, and from 1972 to 1976, was editorial assistant for ''

Screen Screen or Screens may refer to: Arts * Screen printing or ''silkscreening'', a printing method * Big screen, a nickname for motion pictures * Split screen (filmmaking), showing two or more images side by side * Stochastic screening and Halftone ...

'' magazine. In 1982, Cowie joined the

to teach on its film studies programme. Cowie has written two monographs, numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed to various edited collections. In ''Representing the Woman: Psychoanalysis and Cinema'' (1997) she merges traditional

psychoanalytic film theory Psychoanalytic film theory is a school of academic thought that evokes the concepts of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. The theory is closely tied to Critical theory, Marxist film theory, and Apparatus theory. The theory is separate ...

with

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

(see

Screen theory Screen theory is a Marxist film theory, Marxist–psychoanalytic film theory associated with the British journal Screen (journal), ''Screen'' in the early 1970s. It considers filmic images as signifiers that do not only encode meanings but also mi ...

). In ''Recording Reality, Desiring the Real'' (2011) she examines the history of documentary film.

Publications

*''Representing the Woman: Psychoanalysis and Cinema'' (London: Palgrave Macmillan and Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1997) *''Recording Reality, Desiring the Real'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

References

Living people Academics of the University of Kent Film theorists Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub