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Dr Malcolm Cook

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Dr Malcolm Cook is Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton.

I was appointed Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton in 2015. I have previously taught at Middlesex University, Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), and Birkbeck (University of London).

I have a PhD from Birkbeck for my thesis titled ‘Animating perception: British cartoons from music hall to cinema, 1880 - 1928’. I also hold an MA in History of Film and Visual Media from Birkbeck, and a BA in Film and Literature from the University of Warwick.

I am the author of a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and I have co-authored (with Max Sexton) a book titled Adapting Science Fiction to Television: Small Screen, Expanded Universe (2015). This book explores the way the adaptation to television of a range of science fiction sources, including literature, cinema, radio, and comics, has been used to explore and define the medium specificity of television. (Full details of my publications can be found on a separate tab).

Research

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Research interests

My primary research interests lie in the moving image's intermedial relationships, the many and varied ways in which it has been influenced by and interacted with other art forms, and the implications these have for definitions of cinema, both historically and in contemporary practices. Animation, early cinema, and film music/sound, individually and in combination, have all provided areas of research that are particularly well suited to this rich topic and are the basis of my existing publications. My PhD research examined early British animated cartoons prior to the advent of sound cinema, with a particular focus on the relationship between the moving image and the graphic arts and other pre-cinematic entertainments, as well as the neurological processes involved in the perception of these forms. While always rooted in film studies, the intermedial focus of my research has necessarily required openness to interdisciplinary methods, drawing on art history, theatre and performance studies, literary and adaptation studies, and contemporary work in the neurosciences.

Articles

Cook, M. (2013). Book review: Cinema beyond film: media epistemology in the modern era. Early Popular Visual Culture, 11(1), 94-96. DOI: 10.1080/17460654.2012.759446
Cook, M. (2013). Book review: Shadow of a Mouse: performance, belief, and world-making in animation. Animation, 8(3), 304-308. DOI: 10.1177/1746847713501830
Cook, M., Jones, D., & Jones, N. (2013). The Erskine Williams Collection. Early Popular Visual Culture, 11(4), 409-437.
Cook, M. (2013). The lightning cartoon: animation from music hall to cinema. Early Popular Visual Culture, 11(3), 237-254. DOI: 10.1080/17460654.2013.817146

Review

Cook, M. (2016). Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation. Animation, 11(3), 314-317. DOI: 10.1177/1746847716662545

Books

Cook, M. (2018). Early British animation: from page and stage to cinema screens. Palgarave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73429-3
Sexton, M., & Cook, M. (2015). Adapting science fiction to television: small screen, expanded universe. (Science Fiction Television). Prince George's County, US: Rowman & Littlefield.

Book Chapters

Cook, M. (2018). Advertising and public service films. In The Animation Studies Reader (pp. 1-11). Bloomsbury Academic.
Cook, M. (2017). A primitivism of the senses: the role of music in Len Lye’s experimental animation. In H. Rogers, & J. Barham (Eds.), The Music and Sound of Experimental Cinema Oxford University Press.
Cook, M., & Sexton, M. (2016). Adaptation as a function of technology and its role in the definition of medium. In The Routledge Companion to Adaptation Routledge.
Cook, M. (2015). Pixar, 'The Road to Point Reyes' and the long history of landscape in new visual technologies. In C. Pallant (Ed.), Animated Landscapes: History, Form, and Function London, GB: Bloomsbury Academic.
Cook, M. (2012). Animating the audience: singalong films in Britain in the 1920s. In J. Brown, & A. Davison (Eds.), The Sounds of the Silents in Britain Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797615.003.0013
Cook, M. (2011). Visual music in film, 1921-1924: Richter, Eggeling, Ruttman. In C. de Mille (Ed.), Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950 (pp. 206-228). Newcastle upon Tyne, GB: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Conference

Cook, M. (2014). Performance times: The lightning cartoon and the emergence of animation. In K. Askari, S. Curtis, F. Gray, L. Pelletier, T. Williams, & J. Yumibe (Eds.), Performing New Media: 1890-1915. The edited DOMITOR proceedings from Brighton, UK, 2012 Barnet, GB: John Libbey.

I teach the following modules:

FILM1036/7 - 'What is Cinema? Film, Art and Technology'

FILM2023 - Animation: Technology, culture and industry

FILM2002 - Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929

As well as supervising third year dissertations.

Dr Malcolm Cook
Film
Humanities
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom
Email: M.Cook@soton.ac.uk

Room Number:65/1063

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