Russian Film Symposium 2013

[Nancy Condee]

Hi, Svetlana.  Briefly (in case others are interested), see
<http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2013/logistics.html>
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2013/logistics.html.  The Holiday Inn (listed on
this page) is now Wyndham, but this remains the most convenient choice.

 

Best wishes, Nancy

 

Prof. N. Condee, Director
Global Studies Center (NRC Title VI)
University Center for International Studies
University of Pittsburgh
4103 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
+1 412-363-7180
condee at pitt.edu
www.ucis.pitt.edu/global



 

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I am interested in attending the film symposium on Saturday May 4.  Can you
recommend any hotels in the area?

 

 

Svetlana

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From: Padunov, Vladimir <mailto:padunov at PITT.EDU>  

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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 6:43 AM

Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Film Symposium 2013

 

The fifteenth annual Russian Film Symposium, "Re-Imagining Class: Recent
Russian Cinema" will be held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh
from Monday 29 April through Saturday 4 May 2013, with evening screenings at
the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Melwood Screening Room.  

The rigid and hereditary system of estates (nobility, gentry, merchantry,
clergy, serfs, etc.) established by Peter the Great at the end of the
seventeenth century virtually precluded any upward social mobility.  This
official system remained in place until the October Revolution and the
founding of the Soviet state with its "dictatorship of the proletariat,"
equally effective in preventing the emergence of a  class-stratified society
with the potential for social mobility.  If the first decade of the
post-Soviet implosion was marked by the almost overnight appearance of
oligarchs (super-rich and politically powerful individuals usually
monopolizing former state industries connected to minerals, oil, gas, media,
and transport), then the second post-Soviet decade has been marked by what
the Western press refers to as "the rising Russian middle class" (but
representatives of the Russian state derisively refer to as "office
plankton," "clerical class," or "hamsters" in their statements to the mass
media).  These "hamsters" demonstrated their political clout beginning in
December 2011 with massive protests over voting fraud in the parliamentary
elections.

While the existence of this "middle class" is beyond dispute, there is an
enormous gap between the living conditions of this class (especially in
major cities) and the ways in which these lives are represented in Russian
cinema of the past decade.  Moscow (for example) is one of the five most
expensive cities in the world, not just in terms of real estate prices, but
also in the cost of food and clothing.  As a consequence, the majority of
the members of the "middle class" work multiple jobs just to get through the
month.

The on-screen images of this class belie this reality: they are invariably
represented as living in spacious apartments, thoroughly modernized and
up-graded with every imaginable convenience; they dress in high fashion,
drive expensive European cars, dine in up-scale restaurants, vacation in
every European country imaginable, etc.  In effect, Russia has two "middle
classes"―a real one and a celluloid one.  The fifteenth Russian Film
Symposium will focus on this contradiction.

For a schedule of screenings and panels, as well as a listing of
participants, please visit the Symposium's website at www.rusfilm.pitt.edu.

 

 

___________________________________________

Vladimir Padunov

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of Pittsburgh

427 Cathedral of Learning

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Phone: 412-624-5713                      FAX: 412-624-9714

 

Russian Film Symposium      http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

 

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