Malcolm Cook

Associate Professor in Film Studies, specialising in animation, early cinema, film music/sound, advertising and other useful animation. @malcolmcook76.bsky.soci

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

Hardback copies of my book 'Early British Animation' have arrived and are now available for purchase! https://t.co/RKXcWEVot4

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

Will Arco win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature? https://t.co/tCnwJqUSmV @ConversationUK

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

Singing out now!

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

I'm looking forward to participating in this post-screening panel about the spectacular blockbuster Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2. One to see on the big screen for sure!

[Trinity CineAsia @CineAsiaUK]

LONDON: One Day Only – Ne Zha 2 Special Screening + Panel Discussion 🎬

This Sunday, 23 March, experience the epic fantasy animation Ne Zha 2 on the big screen at @RegentStCinema – the birthplace of British cinema.

Join an exclusive post-screening panel with UK film animators, scholars, and voice actors as they dive into the film’s animation, storytelling, and the global rise of Chinese myth aesthetics in cinema.

Speakers include:
🎤 @FinniganMorris – Voice of Cyan Fang Beast & Fast as Wind in the hit video game Black Myth: Wukong
🎤 Malcolm Cook – Associate Professor in Film at the University of Southampton
🎤 Beverly Andrews – Playwright, Director, and Filmmaker
🎤 Kerry Brown – Director of Lau China Institute, Professor of Chinese Studies at KCL, Former First Secretary of the UK Embassy in Beijing
🎤 Session Chair: @_friendred Peng – Computational artist, Head of Computer Animation at UAL

📽 Screening | 15:00 - 17:24
🎙 Panel Discussion | 17:30 - 18:10

🎟 Tickets only £15 – Book now: https://t.co/1HdpKf8LEG

One day only. One epic story. See you there!
#NeZha2UKIreland #哪吒之魔童闹海 #哪吒2 #NeZha #NeZha2 #No1AnimatedFilm

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

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). https://t.co/H6vKN3qP49 #jamesbond #bp #IanFleming

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Research-led #teaching can bring educators’ work and passions into the classroom, making topics such as #climatechange less overwhelming for students. Here are five key takeaways from @malcolmcook76.bsky.social of @unisouthampton: https://t.co/2ZmxMbQlvs #climate #SDGs

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

Online Symposium Next Week: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil. More info and free registration: https://t.co/nBkNVYyDbS

[David McGowan @animatedstardom]

The website for the 2025 Society for Animation Studies Conference is now live! The conference will take place in London between 7-10 July 2025. Please be reminded that the deadline for paper/screening proposals is January 10, 2025! https://t.co/9XVAlBPabY

@anistudies @LCCLondon

[Brian Jacobson @BrianRJacobson]

Not just in the spring catalog but in fact out in the world… get it here: https://t.co/NZb0t5536O

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

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?

[Bill Douglas Museum @bdcmuseum]

We are delighted to announce our latest call for applications for stipends to visit and research our amazing collections. Deadline is 31st January 2025 and details are on the link below.
https://t.co/JNCSMI5SDx

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

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.

https://t.co/nBkNVYyDbS

[Bill Douglas Museum @bdcmuseum]

Job Alert: we are hiring 2 x Postdocs for the 'Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible' led by Helen Hanson, app by:20/01/25 Details below ⬇️
1) PDRA in Archives
https://t.co/qPW9mwLKEW
1/2

[Animation Studies @anistudies]

Come join us for a marmalade sandwich in London! A reminder that we are accepting proposals for the 36th Annual SAS Conference (hosted by @LCCLondon @UAL). The deadline is Jan. 10 and the full CFP is at https://t.co/tT59KEDfDy.

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

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 https://t.co/7YgcMYb33p

[Film at Southampton @FilmUoS]

Hot off the press: a new article by our very own Malcolm Cook! Check out "Full Circle: Useful Animation and the Geography of Petroleum Extraction" here: https://t.co/X8qY6TVuF9

[Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76]

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 https://t.co/yZbpYKz4kI

[Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd]

1901 E6 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is here! I speak with Lawrence Napper of King's College London mostly about Mitchell & Kenyon films, which lead us to all kinds of fun tangents. Links to the last guest episode of the season 👇Finale next week!

[Film at Southampton @FilmUoS]

Next Tuesday, 5th November @ 4pm, we will be joined by @AnnaViolaSborgi for a @baftss New Connections Talk. Anna will be discussing "Homelessness, Gender and Labour in Contemporary Narrative Cinema." Please do join us for what promises to be a great talk! 🎆

[Film at Southampton @FilmUoS]

Please join us tomorrow for our second research seminar of the semester @ 4pm, Lecture Theatre B (Avenue Campus)! We will be joined by Professor Melanie Bell, who will give a talk titled "Visibility, Gender and the Archive: Feminist Approaches to Women’s Film Work." Info below:

[Grace Han @gracehahahan]

this is next week with @SCMS_AMSIG ! join us in a conversation on teaching about animation and modernism with Dan Bashara and Ryan Pierson. co-organized with @J_Ristola & Chris Taylor. spread the word!