Aaron Baker

Aaron Baker
Ross-Blakley Hall 370
PO Box 871401
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Biography

Aaron Baker's research and teaching focus on American film and television. In 2021 he published a revised edition of his collection of essays, A Companion to Martin Scorsese (Wiley Blackwell),  and a monograph entitled The Baseball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History (Rutgers University Press). 

 

Research Interests

Film and Television, Sports and Media

 

 

 

Publications

  • Aaron Baker, The Baseball Film. A Cultural and Transmedia History. (Rutgers University Press. 2021).
  • Aaron Baker. "Hollywood Baseball Films: Nostalgic White Masculinity or the National Pastime?" Quarterly Review of Film and Video, (February, 2021).
  • Aaron Baker. A Companion to Martin Scorsese (2014, revised edition 2021).
  • Aaron Baker. “Global Cinema and Contagion”  Film Quarterly (Spring 2013).
  • Aaron Baker. Steven Soderbergh. (2011).
  • Aaron Baker. "Remade by Steven Soderbergh". The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh (2011).
  • Aaron Baker. "Robert De Niro: Star as Actor Auteur". Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s (2010).
  • Aaron Baker. Goal! and the Global Sports Film. Sport in Society (2008).
  • Aaron Baker. "1930". American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations (2007).
  • Aaron Baker. "Midtown Jewish Masculinity in Body and Soul". The City That Never Sleeps (2007).

Courses

Summer 2022
Course Number Course Title
FMS 598 Special Topics
Spring 2022
Course Number Course Title
FMS 360 Media Genres
FMS 504 Film Analysis
Fall 2021
Course Number Course Title
FMS 340 Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture
FMS 468 Crime & Violence American Film
Spring 2021
Course Number Course Title
FMS 504 Film Analysis
Fall 2020
Course Number Course Title
FMS 340 Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture
WWS 567 World War II in Film
Spring 2020
Course Number Course Title
FMS 504 Film Analysis
HST 590 Reading and Conference
FMS 598 Special Topics
Summer 2019
Course Number Course Title
FMS 100 Introduction to Film
Spring 2019
Course Number Course Title
FMS 598 Special Topics
Fall 2018
Course Number Course Title
FMS 340 Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture
Summer 2018
Course Number Course Title
FMS 100 Introduction to Film
FMS 507 Crime & Violence American Film
Spring 2018
Course Number Course Title
FMS 340 Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture
FMS 504 Film Analysis

Presentations

  • Aaron Baker The Catcher Was a Guy. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. (March 2019)
  • Aaron Baker. "Intersectionality in Venus Vs." The American Studies Association Conference. (Oct. 2016).
  • Aaron Baker. "Screening Jackie Robinson." The American Studies Association Conference. (Oct. 2015)
  • Aaron Baker, "The Real Rocky. Television Documentary and the American Dream." The Italian American Studies Conference. The University of Toronoto. (Oct. 2014).
  • Aaron Baker, "Contagion, Fractal Narrative and Global Cinema." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual  Conference (Mar. 2013).
  • Aaron Baker. "Masculinity, Race and Violence On Any Given Sunday." Invited Presentation, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (Nov 2012).
  • Aaron Baker. "Steven Soderbergh: Authorship, Independent and Hybrid Cinema." Invited Presentation, Dept. of English, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (Mar 2010).
  • Aaron Baker. "Antonioni, Soderbergh and The Color of Money". Society for Film and Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles (Mar 2010).
  • Aaron Baker. "Italian American Masculinity, Violence and Football in Any Given Sunday." Film and History Conference (Nov 2008).
  • Aaron Baker. "Goal! and The Global Sports Film." Association for Cultural Studies (Jul .2008).
  • Aaron Baker. "Nuovomondo and the Immigration Debate." Society of Film and Media Studies (Mar. 2008).

Service

  • Director, Film and Media Studies Program (Spring 2021)
  • Editor for Screening Sports book series at the University of Illinois Press. (2018-present)
  • Interim Chair, Department of English (2016-17)
  • DIrector, Film and Media Studies Program (2011-2016)
  • Editor for Sports, Media and Society book series at the University of Nebraska Press (2014-present)
  • FMS Faculty Advisor, ASU Barrett Honors College (2006 - Present)
  • Reviewer, Communication and Sport (2015)
  • Board Member, ASU Institute for Humanities Research  (2014)
  • Grant Board Member, Arizona Humanities Council Grant Committee (2009-2010) 
  • Reviewer, Cinema Journal (2007)
  • Reviewer, Oxford University Press (2006)

Expertise Areas

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