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Steven P. Hill




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Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies

Address
3137 Foreign Languages Building MC-170
707 S. Mathews Street
Urbana, Illlinois 61801
phone: (217) 333-1246
fax: (217) 333-7310
e-mail: s-hill4@illinois.edu



Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan

Major Research interests
Russian Film and Theatre
American and Comparative Film History
Teaching of Russian Language and Culture



Selected publications
  • "Career Survey of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, Wyler," in anthology edited by Bowman, Master Space (1992).
  • "Appendices" [translator], general editorial assistance, on anthology ed. by Golovskoy, Behind the Soviet Screen (1986).
  • "Intertitles" [translator] and "Introduction" [author] for Blackhawk Films' U.S. re-release of Russian films Earth and End of St. Petersburg (1975-77).
  • The beginnings of Soviet broadcasting and the role of V. I. Lenin. (with Thomas H. Guback) Association for Education in Journalism, Journalism Monographs no. 26 (1972)
  • "Strange Case of the Vanishing Epigraphs [of Potemkin]," in anthology ed. by Marshall, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1978).
  • "Jay Leyda's Kino" Film Culture, No. 63-64 (1977).
  • "Quantitative View of Soviet Cinema," Cinema Journal, Spring 1972; reprinted in anthology ed. by MacCann, Cinema Examined (1982).
  • "Kuleshov -- Prophet without Honor?" Film Culture, no. 44 (Spring 1967).
  • "University of Illinois Film Society [history]," Film Society Review, September, 1965.
  • "Evaluating the Directors [statistically]," Films in Review, v. 12, n. 1 (Jan. '61) and v. 13, n. 7 (August 1962).




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