Shelby Cooke is a film critic and curator, specialising in celebrity culture and identity on screen. She is the current Head Curator and Editor-in-Chief of Film East, a multi-award-winning global film organisation that aims to educate and inspire the next generation of film enthusiasts by offering unique opportunities to connect through thought-provoking cinema.
This site houses all of Shelby's professional experience including her writing, interviews and various projects. Browse through the different tabs to get a taste for the quality of work she produces.
Shelby is open for writing, curatorial and programming commissions. She writes interdisciplinary, often combining her interests in other areas (such as performance art, theatre, music and internet culture) with cinema and other forms of visual media. She has expert knowledge on celebrity culture and identity, contemporary British television and film, specific actors and their careers, online media, British popular culture and David Bowie's filmography.
She works in both the US and UK markets and is based in Delaware, USA. Please send any inquires to [email protected].
This site houses all of Shelby's professional experience including her writing, interviews and various projects. Browse through the different tabs to get a taste for the quality of work she produces.
Shelby is open for writing, curatorial and programming commissions. She writes interdisciplinary, often combining her interests in other areas (such as performance art, theatre, music and internet culture) with cinema and other forms of visual media. She has expert knowledge on celebrity culture and identity, contemporary British television and film, specific actors and their careers, online media, British popular culture and David Bowie's filmography.
She works in both the US and UK markets and is based in Delaware, USA. Please send any inquires to [email protected].
NEWEST ARTICLES
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"There’s Psychopomps at My Door: Guiding the Deceased into the Afterlife in All of Us Strangers" for Film East
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"Brat but it's literally not because it's just a bratty movie collection" for Film East
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"Paddington Bear in a Racist Britain – 10 Years of Paul King’s Modern Immigrant" for FILMHOUNDS
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"BFI London Film Festival 2024 | Reviews" for Film East
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"When there’s no clear path into the film industry, create your own" for Little White Lies
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"Joanna Hogg's New Wave of British Cinema: The Souvenir and Middle-Class Social Realism" in Screen Britain
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FILM CRITICISM BOOKS
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CURATED COLLECTIONS
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*Nominated (Distinction) for Best Film Programme at 2024 Film Society of the Year Awards
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INTERVIEWS
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