Description: How twentieth-century Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences
Brief description: Cynthia Baron is professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University. She is author of Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre (2016) and Denzel Washington (2015). She is coauthor of Acting Indie: Industry, Aesthetics, and Performance (2020), Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation (2014), and Reframing Screen Performance (2008). She is coeditor of More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Film Performance (2004), editor of the Journal of Film and Video, and BGSU Research Scholar of Excellence 2017-2020.
Review Quotes: Intersecting Aesthetics is a pivotal work from leading scholars in African American film studies. The influence of this collection will reach long into the future.--Gerald R. Butters Jr., coeditor of Beyond Blaxploitation