Cynthia Baron

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Cynthia Baron
Born
US
NationalityAmerican
Education Ph.D. in Film, Literature, and Culture, University of Southern California
OccupationAcademic
Employer(s) Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Website https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/theatre-and-film/faculty-staff.html

Cynthia Baron is an American film scholar and Professor of Theatre and Film Studies at the Bowling Green State University. [1] [2] [3] She is currently the editor of Journal of film and video , and The Projector: A Journal of Film, Media, and Culture. [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Honors

Baron was honored with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Service Award in 2023 and was recognized as the BGSU Research Scholar of Excellence from 2017 to 2020. [8] [9]

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  1. ↑ "Cynthia Baron | University Press of Mississippi". www.upress.state.ms.us. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Cynthia Baron". Bowling Green State University. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  3. ↑ "Cynthia Baron Books, Author Bio, Book Reviews & More at Alibris". origin-www.alibris.com. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  4. ↑ "UI Press | University of Illinois". www.press.uillinois.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  5. ↑ Stonehill, Kristina (3 August 2023). "Announcing the new editor of Journal of Film and Video". Illinois Press Blog. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  6. ↑ brackman. "Journal of Film & Video". University Film & Video Association. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "EDITORIAL BOARD". theprojector. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  8. ↑ https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/2023_conference/scms_2023_int_5fp-nr.pdf
  9. ↑ "Professor of Research Excellence". Bowling Green State University. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  10. ↑ "Beneath the surface". Bowling Green State University. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Cine-Files » Denzel Washington: Notes on the Construction of a Black Matinee Idol" . Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  12. ↑ Baron, Cynthia; Tzioumakis, Yannis (2020). Acting Indie. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-40863-1. ISBN   978-1-137-40862-4.
  13. ↑ Dupont, David. "Cynthia Baron's 'Acting Indie' grows from Transatlantic collaboration with co-author Yannis Tzioumakis – BG Independent News" . Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  14. ↑ "Research details American independent cinema through the prism of actors". Bowling Green State University. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  15. ↑ Baron, Cynthia (2016). Modern Acting. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-40655-2. ISBN   978-1-137-40654-5.
  16. ↑ Dupont, David. "Film scholar Cynthia Baron digs deep into the art of movie acting in new book – BG Independent News" . Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  17. ↑ Baron, Cynthia; Bernard, Mark (2013), Egan, Kate; Thomas, Sarah (eds.), "Cult Connoisseurship and American Female Stars in the Sixties: Valuing a Few Withered Tits in the Midst of a 'Mammary Renaissance'", Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 259–275, doi:10.1057/9781137291776_16, ISBN   978-1-137-29177-6 , retrieved 2024-07-23
  18. ↑ Baron, Cynthia; Carson, Diane; Bernard, Mark (2013). Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN   978-0-8143-3805-6.
  19. ↑ Davis, Blair (3 April 2015). "Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film and The Politics of Representation By Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, and Mark Bernard. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2014, 312 pp. $31.95 paper". Journal of Popular Film and Television. 43 (2): 93. doi:10.1080/01956051.2015.1047290. ISSN   0195-6051.
  20. ↑ Baron, Cynthia; Carnicke, Sharon Marie (2008). Reframing Screen Performance. University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.104480. ISBN   978-0-472-05025-3.
  21. ↑ "Subversive Fictions: A Patina of Radicalism in Corporate Media Society". Pure Movies. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  22. ↑ Intersecting Aesthetics.
  23. ↑ "More than a Method". Wayne State University Press. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
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  25. ↑ Baron, Cynthia (2013). "Stanislavsky's Terms for Script Analysis: Vocabulary for Analyzing Screen Performances". Journal of Film and Video. 65 (4): 29–41. doi:10.5406/jfilmvideo.65.4.0029. ISSN   0742-4671. JSTOR   10.5406/jfilmvideo.65.4.0029.
  26. ↑ Baron, Cynthia (3 October 2017), "Film noir: Gesture under pressure", Genre and performance, Manchester University Press, pp. 18–37, ISBN   978-1-5261-2983-3 , retrieved 23 July 2024
  27. ↑ Kramer, Peter; Lovell, Alan, eds. (8 April 2014). Screen Acting (0 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315870373. ISBN   978-1-317-97250-1.
  28. ↑ Baron, Cynthia (2006-03-22). "Dinner and a movie: analyzing food and film". Food, Culture & Society. 9 (1): 93–118. doi:10.2752/155280106778055190.
  29. ↑ Baron, Cynthia; Carson, Diane; Tomasulo, Frank P. (2004). More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance. Wayne State University Press. ISBN   978-0-8143-3079-1.
  30. ↑ Degli-Esposti, Cristina (1998). Postmodernism in the Cinema. Berghahn Books. ISBN   978-1-57181-106-6.
  31. ↑ Baron, Cynthia (1998). "The method moment: situating the rise of method acting in the 1950s". Popular Culture Review. 9 (2): 89–106. doi:10.1002/j.2831-865X.1998.tb00132.x – via Wiley Online Library.


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