Bernie Cook, Georgetown University
Professional Information
- Full name
- Bernie Cook
- Job title
- Associate Dean
- Role
- administration
- Education
- PhD UCLA
- Professional Organizations
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies, American Studies Association
- Current Projects
- Hymns to Elsewhere (a multi-discliplinay, multi-media research collaboration)
- Disciplinary Interests
- Documentary Media, Media and Social Change, Film and Media History, Audience Reception
- Bio
- Dr. Bernie Cook is Associate Dean in Georgetown College and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Georgetown University. Dr. Cook is editor of Thelma & Louise Live! The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film (University of Texas Press 2007) and has published articles on television news coverage of warfare and on violence in American fiction film. In 2008, he produced Why Y'all Are Here, a short video documentary about service learning. He earned his PhD in Critical Studies in Film and Television from the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. Since 1998, he has created and taught film and media studies courses in the English Department, the American Studies Program, and the Program in Justice and Peace at Georgetown. In 2001, he participated in the Documentary Film Institute at George Washington University, collaborating on a short documentary, Changing Room (2001), which has screened at film festivals in Washington, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
History
- Member for
- 1 year 12 weeks
