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From Daydreams to Reality: The New Database of Pre-Soviet Films and the Woman Question

General Programming

dateOctober 14, 2024 timeMonday, 6:00pm EDT location Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University, The Heyman Center

  • Registration required even by CU/BC ID holders

Cosponsors
  • The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
  • Department of Slavic Languages
  • Film & Media Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts
  • Harriman Institute
Organizer
  • Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Contact
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A book talk on From Daydreams to Reality. The New Database of Pre-Soviet Films and the Woman Question given by Anna Kovalova.

Speaker

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.