With Reframing Screen Performance, Baron and Carnicke aim to revive and revitalize the study of performance in cinema, offering a well-reasoned and coherent rubric that is not only practical but also enlightening, valuable, flexible, and important. It is no secret that the serious study of screen performance has been subject to subtle evasion for decades. The reasons for this are numerous and understandable, as the authors explain. There is a long-standing and "influential view that performances are created