| The democracy of colour P Cowan Journal of Media Practice 16 (2), 139-154, 2015 | 87 | 2015 |
| Underexposed: The neglected art of the cinematographer P Cowan Journal of Media Practice 13 (1), 75-96, 2012 | 25 | 2012 |
| Authorship and the Director of Photography: a case study of Gregg Toland and Citizen Kane P Cowan Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 5 (1), 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Analyzing Stylistic Patterning in Film to Establish the Cinematographer as a Coauthor: A Case Study of Gregg Toland P Cowan Projections 11 (1), 16-37, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland P Cowan Rowman & Littlefield, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Aesthetic Elements of the Cinematographic Image P Cowan Cinematography in Progress, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Post-Carroll: Functional Elements of the Moving Image P Cowan Projections 14 (3), 72-89, 2020 | | 2020 |
| Persistence of vision: film authorship and the role of the cinematographer (with a case study of Gregg Toland) P Cowan Manchester Metropolitan University, 2016 | | 2016 |
| Cinematography P Cowan PROJECTIONS-THE JOURNAL FOR MOVIES AND MIND 9 (2), 93-98, 2015 | | 2015 |
| The Use of Colour as a Function of the Cinematographer, The Sleeping-Mat Ballad P Cowan | | |
