John R. Cook (2) (1966–)

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Professor John Cook is a highly experienced and internationally known academic expert specializing in research into media and culture, including media institutions, television drama, science fiction, screenwriting, documentary, and film. His main research and teaching interests lie in television, cinema and related topics in media studies. He is well known as the author of two successful editions of the first full-length academic study of the plays and films of the late distinguished TV screenwriter, Dennis Potter (Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen, 1995; 1998). Cook has also done intensive research into the work of the international film and TV director Peter Watkins (The War Game 1965; Edvard Munch 1973).

He made a unique contribution to screenwriting education in the UK by developing and innovating with the active help of the TV industry, as well as writing both courses and leading to successful founding validation, Britain's first postgraduate MAs wholly devoted to the teaching of television scriptwriting – first at De Montfort University, Leicester in 1999-2000 and then at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in 2008-9.