Dr Grayson Cooke BA(Hons)(VUW), PhD(Concordia) Grayson Cooke is an interdisciplinary scholar and media artist, Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, and Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Media degree. Grayson has exhibited works of new media and photography in Australia and Canada, he has performed live audio-visual works in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and the UK, and he has published academic articles in numerous print and online journals. He is also an associate editor for the online peer-reviewed journal Transformations. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Montreal.
Journal articles
Appearing to act younger: the face of Avon, Transformations (2010)
Introduction:
In Avon’s Australian “Summer Beauty” catalogue for 2004, the following sentence is used to describe...
The cosmeceutical face: time-fighting technologies and the archive, Transformations (2009)
Introduction:
In this paper I will discuss the implications of cosmetic "anti-aging" technologies and their marketing...
We had faces then: Sunset Boulevard and the sense of the spectral, Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2009)
The article discusses how the motion picture "Sunset Boulevard," directed by Billy Wilder, depicts the...
Effacing the face: botox and the anarchivic archive, Body and Society (2008)
Introduction:
At the 2003 Oscar Awards, a little-known production team from Melbourne, Australia won the...
Aporia Australis: lies and responsibility, Double Dialogues (2007)
Introduction: As something of a prefatory move, I would like to begin with the proposition...
Book chapters
Willing to explode: the American western as apocalypse-machine, Bang bang, shoot shoot!: essays on guns and popular culture (1999)
Conference publications
Let's we forget: responsibility and the archive under Howard, UNAustralia [electronic resource]: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia annual conference (2006)
Apologies and the taking of responsibility are complex processes, especially when it is a government...