Aaron Baker
Director of Film and Media Studies, Professor,
English
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Ross-Blakley Hall 370 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
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
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FMS 360 | Media Genres |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FMS 340 | Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 360 | Media Genres |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 340 | Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
| FMS 360 | Media Genres |
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 340 | Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture |
| FMS 468 | Crime & Violence American Film |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FMS 598 | Special Topics |
| FMS 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
| FMS 360 | Media Genres |
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 340 | Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture |
| FMS 468 | Crime & Violence American Film |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| WWS 567 | World War II in Film |
| FMS 340 | Contemp Amer Film/Pop Culture |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| FMS 598 | Special Topics |
| FMS 504 | Film Analysis |
| HST 590 | Reading and Conference |
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, Fall 2023)
- Editor for Screening Sports book series at Rutgers University 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)