
Barbara L. BakerThe University of Texas at Dallas | UTD · Bass School of Arts Humanities
Barbara L. Baker
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Barbara L. Baker currently works at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas. Barbara L. Baker's research is in Film Criticism, Communication. and Media. Their current project focuses on 'Myth and Gender in Current Popular Film'.
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August 1978 - August 1990
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Publications (9)
One of the more controversial films of 2006 was the highly anticipated The Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel. Most criticism focused on the historical and religious problems in both the novel and subsequent film, leading some to claim that the storyline represented a type of " radical feminism " in its presumed secret marriage...
Although widely recognized as a type of mythic discourse, the popular film trilogy known as Star Wars also contains within it an ambiguous message about gender. Using a feminist/rhetorical methodology, the study argues that Star Wars employs androgynous representations as rhetorical strategies which function to purify and transform the nature of th...
The abstract of the dissertation project, from August 1990
This paper discusses the merits and limitations of using both fiction and nonfiction films and videos to teach issues related to gender (especially issues of appearance, dieting, aging, abuse, rape, and power relationships between the sexes) in gender communication courses (and by extension, other communication courses, such as interpersonal commun...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 1990. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 354-386).