Cynthia Chris
Biographic Data
| ID | 1536196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Chris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chris |
| SIGNATURE | CHRIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-5171-9327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Film Review
Engage
Becoming Insect
Book Review| January 01 2012 Becoming Insect? Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology By Jussi Parikka University of Minnesota Press, 2010320 pp./$25.00 (sb) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris CYNTHIA CHRIS is an associate professor in the department of media culture at the College of Staten Island. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2012) 39 (4): 34. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2012.39.4…
Material Crisis
Book Review| November 01 2012 Material Crisis The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources By Nadia Bozak Rutgers University Press, 2011272 pp./ $72.00 (hb), $26.95 (sb)Greening the Media By Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller Oxford University Press, 2012256 pp./$99.00 (hb), $24.95 (sb) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris CYNTHIA CHRIS is the author of Watching Wildlife (2006), and co-editor of Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting (20…
Censoring Purity
In 1916, a celebrated artists' model named Audrey Munson appeared in her second film, Purity . Munson's film career and the film itself are little known. This essay shows that this particular film played a role, heretofore unacknowledged, in the development of National Board of Review policy governing cinematic nudity. Long thought to be lost (and the only one of her four films currently extant), the film features Munson in a dual role as the all…
Cable Visions
All Documentary, All the Time
Girls on the Re-Make
Essay| April 01 2001 Girls on the Re-Make Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a PhD candidate in the department of Communications at University of California, San Diego and a long-time contributor to Afterimage. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2001) 28 (5): 11–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2001.28.5.11a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…
Reel Nature
Video Art
Essay| April 01 2000 Video Art: Stayin’ Alive Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a frequent contributor to Afterimage. She is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2000) 27 (5): 10–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2000.27.5.10 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppl…
Choice Objects
Essay| June 01 1998 Choice Objects: Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is currently a PhD student in Communications at the University of California, San Diego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1998) 25 (6): 11–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1998.25.6.11a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ico…
San Diego’s Mopa Moves Forward
Essay| December 01 1997 San Diego’s Mopa Moves Forward Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a media critic, scholar and doctoral student in communication studies at the University of California, San Diego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1997) 25 (3): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1997.25.3.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review…
Video Art
least that can be said is that we have witnessed death of art in United States. So writes Michael Nash in a recent and provocative essay on new technologies and media arts, that appears, almost ironically, in Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996), edited by Michael Renov and Erika Suderberg. Resolutions is just one of several new books dedicated to critique and theorization of art. Just as death knell sounds for video, critical attenti…
Beyond the Mouse-Ear Gates
Essay| December 01 1995 Beyond the Mouse-Ear Gates: The Wonderful World of Disney Studies Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris, a frequent contributor to Afterimage, is a New York writer and artist. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1995) 23 (3): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1995.23.3.8 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share …
Documents and Counter-Documents
Review| November 01 1994 Documents and Counter-Documents: AIDS Activist Video at the Crossroads Fast Trip, Long Drop by Gregg BordowitzOne Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave (Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room) by Juan Botas Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and artist living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1994) 22 (4): 6–8. https://doi.o…
More to Come
Review| March 01 1994 More to Come Queer Looks edited by Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratihba Parmar, New York: Routledge, 1993 413 pp./$19.95 (sb) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and arts administrator living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1994) 21 (8): 14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1994.21.8.14 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables …
Aids Activism Critiqued
Review| February 01 1993 Aids Activism Critiqued A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art and Contemporary Cultures edited by Allen Klusacek and Ken MorrisonMontreal: Artexte Information Centre and Vehicule Press, 1992/320 pp./$19.95 (sb).Public Art Issues edited by James M. Clark, Robert Knafo, and Diane MignattiNew York: The Public Art Fund, 1992/32 pp./$5 (sb). Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and critic who lives in New York City Se…
Regarding Gender
Review| December 01 1992 Regarding Gender Vested Interest: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie GarberLondon and New York: Routledge, 1992 443 pp./$35 (hb)Body Guards: The cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, London and New York: Routledge, 1991 382 pp./$16.95 (sb)Zoe Leonard, Paula Cooper Gallery New York, New York, May 2-June 10Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity by Tami Gold dist…
Against the law Sex workers Speak
Review| June 01 1991 Against the law Sex workers Speak Street Sex by Carol Jacobsen at Franklin Furnace, New York, NY March 22-April 13Love for Sale–Free Condoms Inside by Gran Fury with PONY at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Feb. 16-April 30 Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and artist who lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1991) 19 (…
Film and Video on the Outskirts
Review| January 01 1991 Film and Video on the Outskirts Fourth New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, Sept. 10-16, 1990Lookout Lesbian and Gay Video Festival ‘90 at Downtown Community Television Center, New York, NY, Oct. 9-14, 1990 Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a member of the ACT UP/NY Women and AIDS Book Group. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Googl…
Choice Objects
News| February 01 1990 Choice Objects: Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and critic who lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1990) 17 (7): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1990.17.7.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tool…
Diamonds are Forever
Review| September 01 1990 Diamonds are Forever A Spy in the House that Ruth Built by Vanalyne Green distributed in 3/4′′ and VHS by Video Data Bank (37 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL 60603) and Women Make Movies (225 Lafayette St. #212, New York, NY 10012) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a member of the ACT UP/NY Women and AIDS Book Group, which recently completed Women, AIDS and Activism, forthcoming from South End Press. Search for ot…
Legal Separation
Review| January 01 1989 Legal Separation Lifetime Commitment: A Portrait of Karen Thompson by Kiki Zeldes and Susan Bruce distributed by Women Make Movies (225 Lafayette St. #212, New York. NY 10012) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and writer living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (6): 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1989.16.6.20 Views Icon …
Girlfriends
Review| April 01 1989 Girlfriends Let’s Play Prisoners by Julie Zando at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Dec. 12,1988 distributed in 3/4′′ by Video Data Bank (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Dr. and Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60603) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and writer living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (9): 21…
Women and Aids
Review| January 01 1989 Women and AIDS Until That Last Breath by Ann Meredith at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Feb. 24-April 16Overlooked/Underplayed: Videos on Women and AIDS at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Feb. 24-April 16 Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and critic who lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989…
Babbling Books
Review| May 01 1986 Babbling Books Babylonian Misapprehensions; Doctor Dogwit’s Inventory of Provisional Alignments both by Gary Richman Blue Book Issues (83 Robinson St., Wakefield, Rl 02879)/both n.p./both $10.00 (sb) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris, an artist and critic, is the coordinator of the visiting artist program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Sc…
Pretty in Pink
Essay| June 01 1988 Pretty in Pink Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and writer living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1988) 16 (1): 12–13. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1988.16.1.12 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Legal Separation
Review| January 01 1989 Legal Separation Lifetime Commitment: A Portrait of Karen Thompson by Kiki Zeldes and Susan Bruce distributed by Women Make Movies (225 Lafayette St. #212, New York. NY 10012) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and writer living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (6): 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1989.16.6.20 Views Icon …
Girlfriends
Review| April 01 1989 Girlfriends Let’s Play Prisoners by Julie Zando at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Dec. 12,1988 distributed in 3/4′′ by Video Data Bank (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Dr. and Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60603) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and writer living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (9): 21…
Women and Aids
Review| January 01 1989 Women and AIDS Until That Last Breath by Ann Meredith at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Feb. 24-April 16Overlooked/Underplayed: Videos on Women and AIDS at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Feb. 24-April 16 Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and critic who lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989…
Policing Desire
Review| December 01 1989 Policing Desire Urinal by John Greyson distributed by John Greyson (29 McCaul St., Toronto, Canada M5T 1R7) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and critic who lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 17 (5): 19. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1989.17.5.19 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
Choice Objects
News| February 01 1990 Choice Objects: Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is an artist and critic who lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1990) 17 (7): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1990.17.7.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tool…
Diamonds are Forever
Review| September 01 1990 Diamonds are Forever A Spy in the House that Ruth Built by Vanalyne Green distributed in 3/4′′ and VHS by Video Data Bank (37 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL 60603) and Women Make Movies (225 Lafayette St. #212, New York, NY 10012) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a member of the ACT UP/NY Women and AIDS Book Group, which recently completed Women, AIDS and Activism, forthcoming from South End Press. Search for ot…
Against the law Sex workers Speak
Review| June 01 1991 Against the law Sex workers Speak Street Sex by Carol Jacobsen at Franklin Furnace, New York, NY March 22-April 13Love for Sale–Free Condoms Inside by Gran Fury with PONY at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Feb. 16-April 30 Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and artist who lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1991) 19 (…
Film and Video on the Outskirts
Review| January 01 1991 Film and Video on the Outskirts Fourth New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, Sept. 10-16, 1990Lookout Lesbian and Gay Video Festival ‘90 at Downtown Community Television Center, New York, NY, Oct. 9-14, 1990 Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a member of the ACT UP/NY Women and AIDS Book Group. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Googl…
Regarding Gender
Review| December 01 1992 Regarding Gender Vested Interest: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie GarberLondon and New York: Routledge, 1992 443 pp./$35 (hb)Body Guards: The cultural politics of gender ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, London and New York: Routledge, 1991 382 pp./$16.95 (sb)Zoe Leonard, Paula Cooper Gallery New York, New York, May 2-June 10Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity by Tami Gold dist…
Aids Activism Critiqued
Review| February 01 1993 Aids Activism Critiqued A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art and Contemporary Cultures edited by Allen Klusacek and Ken MorrisonMontreal: Artexte Information Centre and Vehicule Press, 1992/320 pp./$19.95 (sb).Public Art Issues edited by James M. Clark, Robert Knafo, and Diane MignattiNew York: The Public Art Fund, 1992/32 pp./$5 (sb). Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and critic who lives in New York City Se…
Documents and Counter-Documents
Review| November 01 1994 Documents and Counter-Documents: AIDS Activist Video at the Crossroads Fast Trip, Long Drop by Gregg BordowitzOne Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave (Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room) by Juan Botas Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and artist living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1994) 22 (4): 6–8. https://doi.o…
More to Come
Review| March 01 1994 More to Come Queer Looks edited by Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratihba Parmar, New York: Routledge, 1993 413 pp./$19.95 (sb) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a writer and arts administrator living in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1994) 21 (8): 14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1994.21.8.14 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables …
Beyond the Mouse-Ear Gates
Essay| December 01 1995 Beyond the Mouse-Ear Gates: The Wonderful World of Disney Studies Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris, a frequent contributor to Afterimage, is a New York writer and artist. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1995) 23 (3): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1995.23.3.8 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share …
Video Art
least that can be said is that we have witnessed death of art in United States. So writes Michael Nash in a recent and provocative essay on new technologies and media arts, that appears, almost ironically, in Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996), edited by Michael Renov and Erika Suderberg. Resolutions is just one of several new books dedicated to critique and theorization of art. Just as death knell sounds for video, critical attenti…
San Diego’s Mopa Moves Forward
Essay| December 01 1997 San Diego’s Mopa Moves Forward Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a media critic, scholar and doctoral student in communication studies at the University of California, San Diego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1997) 25 (3): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1997.25.3.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review…
Choice Objects
Essay| June 01 1998 Choice Objects: Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is currently a PhD student in Communications at the University of California, San Diego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1998) 25 (6): 11–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1998.25.6.11a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ico…
Video Art
Essay| April 01 2000 Video Art: Stayin’ Alive Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a frequent contributor to Afterimage. She is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2000) 27 (5): 10–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2000.27.5.10 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppl…
Girls on the Re-Make
Essay| April 01 2001 Girls on the Re-Make Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris is a PhD candidate in the department of Communications at University of California, San Diego and a long-time contributor to Afterimage. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2001) 28 (5): 11–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2001.28.5.11a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…
Reel Nature
All Documentary, All the Time
Cable Visions
Becoming Insect
Book Review| January 01 2012 Becoming Insect? Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology By Jussi Parikka University of Minnesota Press, 2010320 pp./$25.00 (sb) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris CYNTHIA CHRIS is an associate professor in the department of media culture at the College of Staten Island. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2012) 39 (4): 34. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2012.39.4…
Material Crisis
Book Review| November 01 2012 Material Crisis The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources By Nadia Bozak Rutgers University Press, 2011272 pp./ $72.00 (hb), $26.95 (sb)Greening the Media By Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller Oxford University Press, 2012256 pp./$99.00 (hb), $24.95 (sb) Cynthia Chris Cynthia Chris CYNTHIA CHRIS is the author of Watching Wildlife (2006), and co-editor of Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting (20…
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