Yuri Tsivian
Biographic Data
| ID | 295497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuri Tsivian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuri |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsivian |
| SIGNATURE | TSIVIAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yuri Tsivian is William Colvin Professor, Departments of Art History, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literatures, and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago. His most recent books are Ivan the Terrible (British Film Institute, 2002) and Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties (Sacile/Pordenone, 2004). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cultural Reception of Early Cinema in Russia
Can we hope to reconstruct the figure of the ‘first viewer’ of the then-new medium of film by assembling scraps of non-filmic evidence? The impression made by Lumières’ early film The Arrival of a Train (1895) could not be repeated by later filmmakers, however hard they may have tried. Similarly, there is no point in scrutinizing other films released by the Lumières in order to establish their initial impact. One can say that it was not so much t…
Action and Acting at Biograph Studio, 1908-1912
Transmedia Frictions
Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term "transmedia" with "transnational," they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the book stages debates across …
Talking to Miriam
The history of editing as sketched in this article examines the theory of vernacular modernism proposed by Miriam Hansen in 1999. Taking stock of physical, optical, and temporal limitations imposed by the medium of film on actors, playwrights, and directors leads to a system of continuity rules, the staple of classical Hollywood film narration. Soviet montage theory emerged in an attempt to adjust continuity rules from American screenwriting manu…
Charlie Chaplin and His Shadows
What Is Cinema?' An Agnostic Answer
Turning Objects, Toppled Pictures
July 01 2007 Turning Objects, Toppled Pictures: Give and Take between Vertov's Films and Constructivist Art Yuri Tsivian Yuri Tsivian Yuri Tsivian is William Colvin Professor, Departments of Art History, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literatures, and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago. His most recent books are Ivan the Terrible (British Film Institute, 2002) and Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov an…
Lines of Resistance
Lines of Resistance is a major collection of little-known writings by and about Dziga Vertov, available here in English for the first time. While Vertov's uncompromising writings and his experimental features, such as Man with a Movie Camera, are known and discussed in the West, less is known about the other films he made in the 1920s, and still less about the response they provoked in the Soviet Union and abroad. Vertov liked to call his films a…
Silent Witnesses
Early Russian Cinema and its Public
(1991). Early Russian Cinema and its Public. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 105-120
Charlie Chaplin and His Shadows
What Is Cinema?' An Agnostic Answer
Turning Objects, Toppled Pictures
July 01 2007 Turning Objects, Toppled Pictures: Give and Take between Vertov's Films and Constructivist Art Yuri Tsivian Yuri Tsivian Yuri Tsivian is William Colvin Professor, Departments of Art History, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literatures, and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago. His most recent books are Ivan the Terrible (British Film Institute, 2002) and Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov an…
Talking to Miriam
The history of editing as sketched in this article examines the theory of vernacular modernism proposed by Miriam Hansen in 1999. Taking stock of physical, optical, and temporal limitations imposed by the medium of film on actors, playwrights, and directors leads to a system of continuity rules, the staple of classical Hollywood film narration. Soviet montage theory emerged in an attempt to adjust continuity rules from American screenwriting manu…
Early Russian Cinema and its Public
(1991). Early Russian Cinema and its Public. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 105-120
Silent Witnesses
Lines of Resistance
Lines of Resistance is a major collection of little-known writings by and about Dziga Vertov, available here in English for the first time. While Vertov's uncompromising writings and his experimental features, such as Man with a Movie Camera, are known and discussed in the West, less is known about the other films he made in the 1920s, and still less about the response they provoked in the Soviet Union and abroad. Vertov liked to call his films a…
Turning Objects, Toppled Pictures
July 01 2007 Turning Objects, Toppled Pictures: Give and Take between Vertov's Films and Constructivist Art Yuri Tsivian Yuri Tsivian Yuri Tsivian is William Colvin Professor, Departments of Art History, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literatures, and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago. His most recent books are Ivan the Terrible (British Film Institute, 2002) and Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov an…
What Is Cinema?' An Agnostic Answer
Transmedia Frictions
Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term "transmedia" with "transnational," they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the book stages debates across …
Talking to Miriam
The history of editing as sketched in this article examines the theory of vernacular modernism proposed by Miriam Hansen in 1999. Taking stock of physical, optical, and temporal limitations imposed by the medium of film on actors, playwrights, and directors leads to a system of continuity rules, the staple of classical Hollywood film narration. Soviet montage theory emerged in an attempt to adjust continuity rules from American screenwriting manu…
Charlie Chaplin and His Shadows
The Cultural Reception of Early Cinema in Russia
Can we hope to reconstruct the figure of the ‘first viewer’ of the then-new medium of film by assembling scraps of non-filmic evidence? The impression made by Lumières’ early film The Arrival of a Train (1895) could not be repeated by later filmmakers, however hard they may have tried. Similarly, there is no point in scrutinizing other films released by the Lumières in order to establish their initial impact. One can say that it was not so much t…
Action and Acting at Biograph Studio, 1908-1912
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