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

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at the

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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 ''

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'' 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 with

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(see Screen theory). 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