See Dr. Cynthia Ann Baron’s Bio at Bowling Green

@ASoulAFire @JaniceOCG See the CV of Dr. #CynthiaAnnBaron @bgsu, joining “If America Fails?:  The Coming Tyranny,” 1/20/22, 8 pm ET, discussing Cults, Cultures and Religions theme in @HandmaidsOnHulu on the TruthWorks Network YouTube Channel.

Dr. Cynthia Ann Baron, Associate Professor, Theatre and Film, Bowling Green State University, joins the Thursday, 1/20/22, 8 pm Episode of “If America Fails?:  The Coming Tyranny,” focusing on the Cults, Cultures and Religions theme in The Handmaid’s Tale.  Her CV is available at the BGSU website if you’d like to learn more about her before her appearance on IAF.  — LMO

Dr. Cynthia Ann Baron is an Associate Professor in Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, where she researches and teaches; authors scholarly books and articles on subjects related to the discipline; and provides keynote speeches and other presentations at conferences both domestically and internationally.  Her research and teaching interests include American Independent Cinema; Screenwriting; Taste Formation; Censorship; Food Studies; Women’s Cinema; and Actor Training, Stardom, and Screen Performance, among other subjects. She has taught courses on intersections between the film-media industry, national security, and cultural moments such as the Cold War and the Vietnam era.  Some other courses Dr. Baron teaches are American Independent Cinema; Hollywood, Censorship, and American Culture; and Performance and Theatre in the Americas. 

Most recently, she published Acting Indie: Industry, Aesthetics, and Performance (with Yannis Tzioumakis), (2020), which illustrates the many ways that actors contribute to American independent cinema and analyzes industrial developments; Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre (2016), which, in part, highlights women’s key contributions to American film and theatre; and Denzel Washington (2015) where Baron traces the star’s persona and impact on mainstream society.  Current book projects include:  Recasting (White) Genres: Race, Ethnicity, and Performance in Contemporary Film and Television; Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness, with co-editor Charlene Regester; and Imprisonment: Representation in Global Film and Media, with co-editor Karen Ritzenhoff.  She is co-chair of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Caucus on Class and has participated in events such as the Rethinking Realist Acting Conference in New York, and the Acting in Film Conference in Potsdam.  — If America Fails:  The Coming Tyranny, a TruthWorks Network Production

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