Elizabeth Cowie

Elizabeth Cowie is a British academic, author, and emeritus professor of film studies at the University of Kent.

Biography Cowie has a degree in history, politics and sociology. In 1982, Cowie joined the University of Kent 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 feminism (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)