Malcolm Cook

New animation book series klaxon! Animation Cultures at Exeter promises to be innovative and distinctive, and I'm honoured to be on the editorial board to support new scholarship. Get in contact if you have ideas for a book.

Malcom Cook giving the first keynote of #SAS36! His presentation explores useful animation and the petroleum industry.

Starting this year's Society for Animation Studies conference strong with a fascinating keynote by Malcolm Cook! #SAS36 @sasanistudies.bsky.social @malcolmcook76.bsky.social

Singing out now!

What are the connections between James Bond and oil? Find out more from Evelyn MacPherson's talk at our seminar 'Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil', happening online today (Wed 12th March). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crude-repr... #jamesbond #bp #IanFleming

Research-led #teaching can bring educators’ work and passions into the classroom, making topics such as #climatechange less overwhelming for students, as @malcolmcook76.bsky.social explains
#SDGs #climate

Changing the climate of teaching: embedding sustainability into film and media studies Research-led teaching can bring educators’ work and passions into the classroom, making topics such as climate change less overwhelming for students and linking learning to future skills. Here are fiv...

"Intellectually, it might seem like a specialist field for scientists; emotionally, it is a topic that raises anxiety." @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Malcolm Cook on why film students may be reluctant to engage with #climatechange and how he tackles this: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/chang...

Following last week's symposium on BP, petroculture and the cultural imaginary, @malcolmcook76.bsky.social and myself are thrilled to announce a follow-up seminar series! Full programme and free registration to all four events here: tinyurl.com/oily25

Preview of what is happening, in thread below!

Crude Representations Seminar Series A series of talks and presentations exploring the place that the oil company BP holds within culture by analysing various forms of media.

Hi Sarah, I'm afraid not, we do hope to develop publications out of the event, and we are going to run some follow-on seminars to include more of the excellent papers we couldn't include in one afternoon. Please join us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crude-repr...

Image depicts a items illustrating the range of holdings at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. These include: a film programme, a sterescope view, a fan magazine, a magic lantern slide and a postcard.

#Filmhistory researchers!

Do apply for a stipend to visit and research in the amazing collections of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the Uni of Exeter, UK. Deadline 31/01/25

www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/call-fo...

Image of oil refinery with symposium title 'Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil'

Online Symposium Next Week: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil. More info and free registration: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

A reminder that the deadline for submitting paper/screening proposals for the 36th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference is 11:59pm GMT on Friday, January 10. CFP information here: sas2025.cargo.site/call-for-pap...

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The term #greenwashing is in common currency today, and credited to Jay Westerveld in 1986. Yet I can't find any source that actually cites the claimed publication. Can anyone point me to the original, or is this a phantom history?

Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, an online symposium on Friday January 24th, is now open for registration. Full details via the link. Please join us and repost/share.

llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

Very happy to be able to share the programme for Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, taking place online on Friday 24th January 2025. See the full programme and register to attend (for free!) here: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

I was delighted to see that my monograph "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (EUP, 2022) has been reviewed in the very 1st issue of The International Journal of Disney Studies by Laura O'Flanagan.
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The Red Shoes Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the t…

THE RED SHOES (1948) is on BBC2 right now. I am painting my kitchen instead, but please forgive me summoning my inner Vicky Page to mention that my book on this film is available at a bargain price on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website www.bloomsbury.com/uk/red-shoes...

Teaching the Climate Emergency in World History Philip Gooding describes his world history course that revolved around the theme of climatic and environmental change.

#COP29 Reading:

"Teaching the Climate Emergency in World History" by Philip Gooding

niche-canada.org/2021/10/12/t...

#envhist #climhist #worldhistory

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CD partially out of CD sleeve labelled Fanfare

Black & white picture of concert hall on programme celebrating 10th anniversary concert

Happy birthday @turnersims.bsky.social 🎂🥳50 years of fabulous music 🎻 🎹 🎷! Loving display at Hartley Library gallery showcasing programmes, concerts & joy of music 🎶 ❤️

An image of a construction site.

1924. What it took to build the set for The Thief Of Bagdad.

703,000 feet of lumber, 115 tons of plaster, 800 sacks of Portland cement … in my new book, The Cinema of Extractions, I name the industrialization that created and supported world making with this kind of material dependence a cinema of resource integration

A digital conference flyer detailing the "Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections" event, scheduled for December 12-13, 2024, in Marburg. It outlines the conference's focus on AI's applications in heritage institutions, hybrid participation options,

CONF: Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections
🗓️ 12-13 December 2024
📍Marburg, Germany & Online

Organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance ‘Value of the Past’ and NFDI4Memory, this event explores the impact of AI on archival practices, focusing on […]

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Cover of ‘Technology and the Historian’ by Adam Crymble

This is still by far the best book I have written.

📔‘Technology and the Historian’

Charting the evolution of digital history practice.

www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Film and Extraction, a new special issue of Media+Environment journal is out now, and Open Access. Thanks to editors Priya Jaikumar and Lee Grieveson for their work and including my article on BP animated films from during Iran oil nationalisation mediaenviron.org/section/4662...

New open access article alert: oil, Iran, BP, and animation are the topics of my article 'Full Circle: Useful Animation and the Geography of Petroleum Extraction' in a new issue of Media+Environment journal
mediaenviron.org/article/1236...