Pam Cook

Pam Cook (born 6 January 1943 in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK) is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton. [ See University of Southampton Film Studies web site: [http://www.soton.ac.uk/film/profiles/cook.html] ] Along with Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston, she was a pioneer of 1970s Anglo-American feminist film theory. [ See E. Ann Kaplan, 'Aspects of British feminist film theory: A critical evaluation of texts by Claire Johnston and Pam Cook', "Jump Cut" no. 2, 1974, pp. 52-5; and 'Interview with British Cine-Feminists', in Karen Kay and Gerald Peary (eds), "Women and the Cinema: A Critical Anthology", New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977, pp. 393-406.] Her collaboration with Claire Johnston on the work of Hollywood film director Dorothy Arzner provoked debate among feminist film scholars over the following decades. [See Constance Penley (ed.), "Feminism and film theory", New York and London: Routledge, 1988; Judith Mayne, "Directed by Dorothy Arzner", Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994.]

In the mid-1980s, Cook co-authored and edited the leading film studies text book "The Cinema Book" for the British Film Institute (BFI). From 1985 to 1994 she was Associate Editor and contributor on the BFI magazines "Monthly Film Bulletin" and "Sight and Sound", before becoming a lecturer at the University of East Anglia. In 1998 she was appointed the first Professor of European Film and Media at the University of Southampton. Since her retirement in 2005, she continues to publish books and articles on film.

Publications

Books

*"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. I Know Where I'm Going!
* "Gainsborough Pictures", London and Washington: Cassell, 1997. Gainsborough Pictures
*"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.

Key articles

* ‘"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 (film)
*‘Portrait of a Lady: Sofia Coppola’, "Sight and Sound" vol. 16, no. 11, November 2006. Sofia Coppola
*'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.
*' "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 Babingtone (ed.), "British Stars and Stardom: From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery", Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. Diana Dors
*'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.
*'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.
*'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.
*'Masculinity in Crisis? Tragedy in "Raging Bull"', "Screen" vol. 23, no. 3/4, Sept/Oct 1982. Raging Bull
*'Duplicity in "Mildred Pierce"', in E. Ann Kaplan (ed.), "Women in Film Noir", London: British Film Institute, 1978. Revised edition 1998. Mildred Pierce (film)
*'Exploitation Films and Feminism', "Screen" vol.17, no. 2, Summer 1976.
*'Approaching the Work of Dorothy Arzner', in Claire Johnston (ed.), "Dorothy Arzner: Towards a Feminist Cinema", London: British Film Institute, 1975. Dorothy Arzner
*'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.

References

External links

* [http://www.soton.ac.uk/film/profiles/cook.html University of Southampton web page]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2827173/ Imdb entry]
* [http://bfiwatch.blogspot.com/ Pam Cook's BFIwatch blog]