Celluloid Manifesto

Reading images and emblems in Dziga Vertov's films
by Yuri Tsivian   posted Apr 12, 2011

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Stride, Soviet!, directed by Dziga Vertov
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KEYWORDS

Dziga Vertov  |  Russian cinema  |  silent film  |  documentary  |  USSR  |  Vladimir Lenin  |  Theater

THE AUTHOR

Yuri Tsivian is the William Colvin professor in the departments of Cinema and Media Studies (chair), Art History, and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. His books include Silent Witnesses: Russian Films 1908-1919 (BFI: London 1989), Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception (Routledge: London, 1994), and Approaches to Carpalistics: Movement and Gesture in Art, Literature and Film (NLO, Moscow, 2010). His new interest is in digital methods of film studies—see http://www.cinemetrics.lv

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