Books by Cook

Originally published in 1966, this is an account of the excavation of a Greek sanctuary once known as the Carian Chersonese located in the south-west corner of the mainland of Asia Minor. The excavations shed fresh light on Greek architectural complexes.

The Horatio Alger myth has worked itself deeply into American culture. Even those who have never read one of his stories and many who could not identify him have come to believe that honest, industrious adolescents can easily rise from poverty to respectability. That conviction has reinforced notions of capitalism and the Protestant work ethic.

A theory of the way in which different media music, words, moving pictures and dance work together to create multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way meaning is mediated in television commercials, and concluding with in-depth readings of Disney's Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl and Armide, Goddard's sequence from the film Aria.

It is a common experience that words are inadequate for music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, this study attempts to make a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism.