Event Type: Conversations
Date
October 14, 2024
Location
Heyman Center Common Room
Time
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Event Organizer
Event Sponsor
Event Co-Sponsor(s)
The Harriman Institute; The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; The Department of Slavic Languages; Institute for Comparative Literature & Society
A book talk on From Daydreams to Reality. The New Database of Pre-Soviet Films and the Woman Question given by Anna Kovalova.
Anna Kovalova is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-century Russian culture and early cinema. She is the author of Kinematograf v Peterburge 1896-1917 (with Yuri Tsivian, 2011). She has published in Film History, The Russian Review, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Osteuropa, and other journals. As the head of the research team project Early Russian Film Prose, she has edited the most complete electronic database of early Russian narrative film texts.
