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Cinema Studies Affiliated Faculty
Lilya Kaganovsky
Titles
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies
Address
3038 Foreign Languages Building MC-160
707 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illlinois 61801
phone: (217) 333-6157
fax: (217) 244-4019
email: lilya@illinois.edu
Personal web page (Comparative Literature)
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Columbia University
Major Research interests
Russian and Soviet literature and film.
Classic Hollywood cinema of the 1940s and 1950s.
Film theory; gender studies; studies in the novel; realism, modernism, and the avant-garde.
Selected Publications
- Dissertation:
"Bodily Remains: The 'Positive Hero' in Stalinist Fiction"
- "The Unheard of Experiment: Sound, Ideology, and the Soviet Screen," in Engendering the Nation: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Gender and National Identity in Russian Culture, ed. Andrea Lanoux, Pittsburgh University Press, 2002.
- Translation: Kazimir Malevich, "The Artist and Cinema" in Malevich on Cinema, ed. Oksana Bulgakowa, PotemkinPress, 2002.
- "How the Soviet Man was (Un)Made," Slavic Review Vol. 63, number 3 (Fall 2004): 577-596.
- "Visual Pleasure in Stalinist Cinema: Ivan Pyr'ev's The Party Card," in Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside, ed. Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman (Indiana University Press, 2006), 35-60.
- "Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to Life," in Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture, ed. Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux (Northern Illinois Press, 2006), 146-175.
- "Men Wanted: Female Masculinities in Livnev's Hammer and Sickle," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 51, number 2 (Summer 2007): 229-246.
- "The Voice of Technology and the End of Soviet Silent Film: on Grigorii Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's Alone," Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Vol 1, number 3 (2007): 265-281.
- "Solaris and the White, White Screen," in Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, ed. Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger (Yale University Press, 2008).
- "The Arms Race, Transgender, and Stagnation: Wolf and Hare in the con/subtext of the Cold War," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, special issue on Soviet cartoons (Moscow, 2008).
- How the Soviet Man Was Unmade, University of Pittsburgh Press (2008)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unit for Cinema Studies
rleskosk@illinois.edu
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