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Malcolm Cook is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Southampton. His research interests encompass animation, early cinema, and film music/sound. He has published several journal articles and book chapters in these areas, including the monograph 'Early British Animation: Page Stage Cinema Screens' (2018), which explored early British animated cartoons before the advent of sound cinema. Cook has also co-edited a collection titled 'Animation Advertising' (2019) with Professor Kirsten Thompson. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton in 2015 and has previously taught at Middlesex University, Central Saint Martins, and Birkbeck. His teaching is informed by his research, and he supervises BA and MA dissertations. Cook has received multiple awards, including the Runner-Up for the Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambart Award for Scholarly Book Animation in both 2019 and 2021. His recent research focuses on the role of animation in various industries, including advertising, particularly in the context of global challenges such as climate change.