Russian Film Symposium 2003: Arrogance and Envy

[padunov]

Arrogance and Envy, the 2003 Russian Film Symposium (May 5-10, Pittsburgh,
USA), will focus on the anti-Americanism in communist and post-communist
cinema over five decades (1950s-2000s).  The event provides a scholarly
arena where participants can examine the narrative and visual strategies of
negative US stereotypes by Russo-Soviet filmmakers who have worked under
eight political leaders from Stalin through Putin in constructing Americans
as the enemy.  No other geo-political space has a comparable history (in
length of time or diversity of representational approaches) in generating
anti-American images.  The film screenings are accompanied by discussions,
commentaries, and prepared research papers.

For details, see http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2003/


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Vladimir Padunov
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1433 Cathedral of Learning         voice: 1-412-624-5713
University of Pittsburgh                 FAX: 1-412-624-9714
Pittsburgh, PA 15260                        padunov at pitt.edu

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

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