Elizabeth Cowie (/ˈkaʊi/ KOW-ee) is a British academic, author, and emeritus professor of film studies at the University of Kent.[1]
Cowie has a degree in history, politics and sociology.[1] After university, she found work in publishing, and from 1972 to 1976, was editorial assistant for Screen magazine.[2] 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.[3] In Representing the Woman: Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1997) she merges traditional psychoanalytic film theory with feminism[4] (see Screen theory). In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real (2011) she examines the history of documentary film.[5]