...Julia Vassilieva This article explores the work of young Russian female director Valeria Gai Germanika. Germanika has gained a public profile over the last ten years through documentary shorts such as Sisters ( Syostry , 2005), Girls ( Devochki , 2005), and Boys ( Malchiki , 2007); feature film...

... in a contradictory manner throughout her lifetime — from poet, to political activist, to filmmaker, to anthropologist, and so on. Third, it investigates Deren's ethnicity — her status as a Russian immigrant Jew, a characterization about which she had great ambivalence. Fourth, it examines her early...

...- ican of me, except that it also means reading Germans and Russians and thinkers from the Third World when you can find them in print, as well as English and French writers. It is rather mundane to say and something we all do tacitly, but my main guides to research are the...

...: The Worlds of Susanne Bier. No. 85: pp. 5 – 31 Belinda Smaill, see Therese Davis and Belinda Smaill Alexia Smit Care, Shame, and Intimacy: Reconsidering the Pleasures of Plastic Surgery Reality Television. No. 86: pp. 59 – 83 Julia Vassilieva “Becoming-Girl”­ in the New Russian Cinema...

.... Routledge, 1993. $16.95. Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars edited by Jane Gaines. Duke University Press, 1992. All Talk: The Talkshow in Media Culture by Wayne Munson. Temple Uni- versity Press, 1993. $34.95. Sex and Russian Society edited by Igor Kon and James Riordan. Indiana...

... University Press, 1991. $12.95. Painted Love: Prostitution in the French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson. Yale University Press, 1991. From Limelight to Satellite: A Scottish Film Book edited by Eddie Dick. Indiana University Press, 1991. $23.95. Silent Witnesses: Russian Films...

... eclecticism that pits various methods against each other. Amer- ican of me, except that it also means reading Germans and Russians and thinkers from the Third World when you can find them in print, as well as English and French writers. It is rather mundane to say and something...

... of rape also did not seem to affect them in the way that they affected her. She was profoundly dis- turbed. Speaking in Russian, she calls the rapes a sexual geno- cide, and then shifting into German, she uses the term “ein Genozid der Liebe,” a...

... Works in Russian. It is impossible to say what Eisenstein would have done, had he survived, to prepare these memoirs for publication. In editing Eisenstein’s works in French, I took many liberties with the order of the Russian works, doing so with the blessings and help of Naum Kleiman...

... Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film documents the development of Soviet film art, in part by exploring the ways in which artistic and political desires intersected and collided. Even David Bordwell, in his analysis of “historical-materialist narration,” suggests that the “om...

...-­based feminist punk and activist art group Pussy Riot and its supporters, incorporating photographs of protestors in colorful balaclavas sewn onto different pieces of secondhand tie-dyed­ T-shirts.­ 2 Among the images are photos of protestors being arrested by the Russian police and holding...

... of Zakovannaja Fil’moj, seventy-fve meters of one reel of fve, is in the Swedish Film 176  •  Camera Obscura Archive in Stockholm, another, perhaps a copy, in Krasnogorsk, the Russian State Documentary Film and Photographic Archive, and this portion leads us to wonder about one more data...

..., Russians, Germans- for their status as perpetually evident social artgacts. (With regard to the image-track, such characters have a similar function of underlining the socio-historical functioning of gesture, as witness the elaborately “foreign” movements of the Italian boss in Tout va &en, the...

... walking dead of the World War II concentration camps, representing the inhu- man state of “bare life”) is the person whose story we most want to hear yet who, by definition, is unavailable to speak.5 While the individual behind the CIA code name SDurn, the dead Russian submariners, and those...

... Goodman named departments with French terminology: the ving- tieme shops, or the salle moderne. This attraction to things French also attached to Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, which opened in Paris in 1909 and was stranded there for many years as a result of World War I and the Russian Revolution...

... Davis says in “My Favorite Dead Artist,” “The only one who immediately knew I was dressed as Frida was Louise Nevelson, who I gather must have known Frida Kahlo back in the day.” From the black drag queen in Los Angeles to the Mexican painter Kahlo and the Russian Ameri­ can sculptor Nevelson...

... dozen times, and a lot of the great American musicals. In my teens, I went to film societies and gobbled up Eisenstein and the Russians, and a lot of early cinema. By the time I was seventeen, I was watching anything the Film Makers' Co-op had, from Warhol's stuff to Wave- length [Michael Snow, 1967...

... three women costumed in gold lam6 dresses, beehive hairdos, and outrageous fifties’ sunglasses, who sing old Yiddish and Russian folk tunes in the train’s dining car. Ottinger’s off-beat wit and sense of humor carries Katz through an elaborate thousand course meal, and...