Elizabeth Cowie teaches Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. 

Her book, Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, was published in 1997, and her recent work on cinema and psychoanalysis has focussed on documentary film, trauma and the spectator in ‘The Spectacle of Actuality’, in  Collecting Visible Evidence, eds Jane Gaines and Michael Renov, Minnesota: Un. Minnesota Press, 1999; and on Hiroshima mon amour in ‘Traumatic Memories of Remembering and Forgetting’, in  Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring history in literature and theory, eds Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2000.

  epff@psychoanalysis.org.uk