Publications

Peer-reviewed publications and Book Chapters

Cooper, T. P.A. 2018. “The Circulatory Dynamics of Pakistani Film”, in forthcoming compilation of academic essays on Pakistani Cinema, Ali Nobil Ahmad and Ali Khan eds. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

Cooper, T. P.A. 2018. “Cinema Itself: Cinephobia, Filmic Anxieties, and Ontologies of the Moving Image in Pakistan.” Visual Anthropology, Volume 31, 2018 – Issue 3: Film, and Its Audiences, pp. 253-267.

Cooper, T. P.A. 2017. “Raddi Infrastructure: Collecting Film Memorabilia in Pakistan: An Interview with Guddu Khan of Guddu’s Film Archive.” In BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, Vol 7, Issue 2, 2017. pp. 151–171.

Cooper, T. P.A. 2016. “ Film Review: Behind The Screen.”  Urbanities – Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol 6 – No 2 – Nov 2016, pp. 116-117.

Cooper, T. P.A. 2015. “Migratory Surfaces: An Informal Visual Economy and the Repair of the Colonial Archive” in AfterImage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol 42, No 4 (March 2015), pp. 8-15. (Cover Feature)

Cooper, T. P.A. 2015. “‘The Black Market Archive: The Velocity, Intensity, and Spread of Pakistani Film Piracy” in Archival Dissonance: Contemporary Visual Culture and Knowledge Production in the Middle East, Anthony Downey ed, (London: I.B Tauris, 2015), pp401-418.

Cooper, T. P.A. 2014. “Animation, Transformation and Indoctrination: The Hypothetical Image of Disney’s Animal Soldiers,” in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 9, Issue 3, 2014. pp. 333–351