ASEEES Panel Postmodernism and Late Soviet/Russian Cinema

[Beach Gray]

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to participate in a panel entitled "Postmodernism and Late
Soviet/Russian Cinema."  We are in need of a chair and another presenter.
 If this piques your interest, please contact me off-list at
beach.gray at gmail.com

This panel explores postmodernism in late Soviet and Russian film.  If
postmodernism is taken to be a global tendency that became salient in the
Soviet Union only in the 1970s, this panel asks when, and if, this artistic
practice took root in film.  What are the ways in which these films respond
not only to socialist realist tropes, but the rich history of modernist
cinematic trends in Russian films of the 1920s and earlier?  How does this
specific iteration of postmodernism relate to other media, such as
literature and conceptualist art, occurring in the Soviet Union and Russia
during the same period?  If such a trend in late Soviet/Russian film exists,
what are its roots, its major directors, its specific formal
characteristics, its beginning date, and its trajectory?  Is postmodernism
still alive and well, or has it been eclipsed by the explosion of global
Russian blockbusters in recent years?  This panel aims not so much at giving
concrete answers to these questions, but at opening up a productive dialogue
centered around these ideas.

Presenters:
Beach Gray, University of Pittsburgh
Ross Ufberg, Columbia University

Discussant:
Irina Anisimova, University of Pittsburgh

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to present on
East-European, Central Asian, or Caucasian postmodernist cinema.

Thank you.

Best,

Beach Gray.

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