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  • Denzel Washington

    by Cynthia Baron ...
    Series series Film Stars
    In this illuminating insight into Denzel Washington's multifaceted image and remarkable career, Cynthia Baron traces his star persona and impact on mainstream society – from his time as a skilled actor in theatre and television in the 1980s, to his leading man roles in landmark films of the 1990s, to his place in Hollywood's elite in the 2000s. ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Afrofuturism in Black Panther

    Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness

    by Cynthia Baron, Neal Curtis, Paul Karolczyk, Clarence Lusane, Paul Moffett, Shayla Monroe, Lauren Steimer, Joshua Truelove, Wayne Wong, Dominique Young, Karen A. Ritzenhoff1, Renée T. White3, Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman4, dann j. Broyld5, Dolita Dannêt Cathcart6, Gabriel A. Cruz7, Zeinabu irene Davis8, Mikal J. Gaines9, Sarah E. S. Sinwell0, Giselle C. M. Greenidge1 ...
    Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-making of Blackness, through an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of Black Panther, discusses the importance of superheroes and the ways in which they are especially important to Black fans. Aside from its global box office success, Black Panther paves the way for future superhero narratives due to its underlying philosophy to ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Appetites and Anxieties

    Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

    by Diane Carson, Cynthia Baron, Mark Bernard ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films.Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the ... Read more

    $34.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reframing Screen Performance

    by Cynthia Baron, Sharon Marie Carnicke ...
    "A significant contribution to the literature on screen performance studies, Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting up to date. It should be of interest to those within cinema studies as well as general readers."---Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State UniversityReframing Screen Performance is a groundbreaking study of film acting that challenges the long held belief that great ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Modern Acting

    The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre

    by Cynthia Baron ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Everyone has heard of Method acting . . . but what about Modern acting? This book makes the simple but radical proposal that we acknowledge the Modern acting principles that continue to guide actors’ work in the twenty-first century. Developments in modern drama and new stagecraft led Modern acting strategies to coalesce by the 1930s – and Hollywood’s new role as America’s primary performing arts ... Read more

    $34.59 CAD

  • Acting Indie

    Industry, Aesthetics, and Performance

    by Cynthia Baron, Yannis Tzioumakis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book illustrates the many ways that actors contribute to American independent cinema. Analyzing industrial developments, it examines the impact of actors as writers, directors, and producers, and as stars able to attract investment and bring visibility to small-scale productions. Exploring cultural-aesthetic factors, the book identifies the various traditions that shape narrative designs, ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Intersecting Aesthetics

    Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness

    Edited by Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, Robin G. Vander ...
    Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. SmithIntersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Contributors to this ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Warscapes

    Mediating Militarized Environments

    by Renée Laurel Pastel, Cynthia Baron, Natalija Arlauskaite, Lawrence Alexander, Tatiana Konrad, Haley Laurila, Hugo Ljungbäck ...
    Series series War Culture
    What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of conflict? Warscapes is the first collection to pursue answers to such questions by considering the relationship between war, environment, and media along three lines: imagined geographies of control ... Read more

    $39.29 CAD

  • Stellar Transformations

    Movie Stars of the 2010s

    by Steven Rybin, Brenda Austin-Smith, Karen Hollinger, Rick Warner, David Greven, Celestino Deleyto, Jennifer O'Meara, Danielle E. Williams, Daniel Varndell, Kyle Stevens0, Matt Connolly1, Cynthia Baron2 ...
    Series series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • American Cinema of the 2010s

    Themes and Variations

    by Dennis Bingham, Michele Schreiber, David Greven, Raymond Haberski Jr., Alexandra Keller, Daniel Smith-Rowsey, Lisa Bode, Cynthia Baron, Julie Levinson, Mikal J. Gaines0 ...
    Series series Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    The 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and as the nation’s political fissures widened, so did the gap between the haves and have-nots. Hollywood reflected these divisions, choosing to concentrate on big franchise blockbusters at the expense of mid-budget films, while new players like Netflix and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Acting

    by Julie Levinson, Victoria Duckett, Arthur Nolletti, David Sterritt, Donna Peberdy, Cynthia Baron ...
    Series series Behind the Silver Screen Series
    Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors’ reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of techniques, artistic conventions, and social factors shape the construction of each role.The chapters in Acting provide a fascinating, in-depth look at the history of film acting, from its inception in 1895 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Training of the American Actor

    Edited by Arthur Bartow ...
    Successful acting must reflect a society’s current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to current needs in order to continue to be successful methods for training actors. The actor’s journey is an individual one, and the actor ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD