Jaimie Baron, Ph.D.

Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept

Pronouns: she/her

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
Email
jaimie1@ualberta.ca
Address
Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Overview

About

Jaimie Baron holds a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (Routledge Press, 2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (Rutgers University Press, 2020). She is the founder and director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, an annual international festival of short experimental found footage films. She is also co-editor of the Docalogue website and the Docalogue Book Series (Routledge Press).



Research

Film and media theory, audiovisual appropriation, experimental film and video, documentary film and video, historiography, ethics, the history of technology and the mediation of human experience, digital media, critical race studies, media and criminal justice 



Teaching

Media Studies, Documentary, Remix Culture, Contemporary Hollywood, Screening Race, Screening Comedy, Media Technologies, East Asian Cinema, Middle Eastern Cinema, Transnational Crime Cinema


Courses

FS 100 - Introduction to Film Study

Introduction to basic formal concepts in film analysis including mise-en-scène, cinematographic properties, editing, and sound, as well as narrative qualities.


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Publications

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness A Docalogue

Author(s): Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs, eds.
Publication Date: 6/6/2022
External Link: https://www.routledge.com/Tiger-King-Murder-Mayhem-and-Madness-A-Docalogue/Baron-Fuhs/p/book/9780367721824

Honeyland: A Docalogue

Author(s): Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs, eds.
Publication Date: 6/6/2022
External Link: https://www.routledge.com/Honeyland-A-Docalogue/Baron-Fuhs/p/book/9780367644529

Kedi: A Docalogue

Author(s): Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs, eds.
Publication Date: 6/6/2021
External Link: https://www.routledge.com/Kedi-A-Docalogue/Baron-Fuhs/p/book/9780367376116

Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relationship

Author(s): Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, and Shannon Wong Lerner, eds.
Publication Date: 6/6/2021
External Link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-ventriloquism-9780197563632?cc=us&lang=en&

I Am Not Your Negro – A Docalogue.

Author(s): Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs, eds.
Publication Date: 6/6/2020
External Link: https://www.routledge.com/I-Am-Not-Your-Negro-A-Docalogue/Baron-Fuhs/p/book/9780367523121

Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era

Author(s): Jaimie Baron
Publication Date: 2020
Publication: Rutgers University Press
External Link: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/reuse-misuse-abuse/9780813599267

The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History

Author(s): Jaimie Baron
Publication Date: 2014
External Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-Archive-Effect-Found-Footage-and-the-Audiovisual-Experience-of-History/Baron/p/book/9780415660730