| Representing the woman: cinema and psychoanalysis E Cowie Springer, 1997 | 443 | 1997 |
| Recording reality, desiring the real E Cowie U of Minnesota Press, 2011 | 322 | 2011 |
| Film noir and women E Cowie Verso, 1993 | 240 | 1993 |
| From Fantasia E Cowie Contemporary Film Theory, 147-161, 2014 | 200 | 2014 |
| Rural underdevelopment in an urbanized mining economy: Zambia. WJ Cowie | 179 | 1979 |
| The spectacle of actuality E Cowie University of Minnesota Press, 1999 | 136 | 1999 |
| The woman in question P Adams, E Cowie | 122 | 1990 |
| Pornography and fantasy E Cowie Sex exposed: Sexuality and the pornography debate, 132-152, 1992 | 99 | 1992 |
| Women, representation and the image E Cowie The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture, 48-60, 1993 | 94 | 1993 |
| Storytelling: classical Hollywood cinema and classical narrative E Cowie Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, 178-190, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| Fantasia." m/ƒ 9 (1984): 70–105." E Cowie Woman as Sign." m/f 1, 49-63, 1978 | 57 | 1978 |
| Fantasia, m/f E Cowie Issue 4, 71-104, 1984 | 47 | 1984 |
| The popular film as a progressive text—A discussion of Coma E Cowie Feminism and film theory, 104-140, 2013 | 46 | 2013 |
| Film Culture:‘New Hollywood Cinema’ E Cowie, S Neale Screen 17 (2), 117-122, 1976 | 43 | 1976 |
| On documentary sounds and images in the gallery E Cowie Screen 50 (1), 124-134, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| Specters of the real: documentary time and art E Cowie differences 18 (1), 87-127, 2007 | 29 | 2007 |
| The lived nightmare: Trauma, anxiety, and the ethical aesthetics of horror E Cowie Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror, 25-46, 2003 | 19 | 2003 |
| Ways of Seeing and Knowing: Documentary Film and the Surreal of Reality E Cowie Wallflower Press, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| Representing the Woman: Psychoanalysis and Cinema E Cowie University of Minnesota Press, 1997 | 16 | 1997 |
| Identifizierung mit dem Realen-Spektakel der Realität E Cowie Vienna: Turia+ Kant, 2001 | 14 | 2001 |
