Yuri Gavrilovich Tsivyan ( August 7, 1950 , Riga ) - Soviet and Latvian historian and theorist of cinema , specialist in early world ( Chaplin ), Russian ( Starevich , Chardynin , Evgeny Bauer ) and Soviet cinema ( Eisenstein , Dziga Vertov ).
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Biography
He graduated from the English department of the Faculty of Philology of Latvia State University ( 1972 ). Candidate of Art Criticism ( 1984 , thesis is defended in LGITMiK ).
He worked at the Institute of Folklore, Literature and Art of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, at the Central Museum of Cinema. He gave lecture courses on the history and semiotics of cinema at the universities of Stockholm , Los Angeles , Amsterdam and others. Supervisor of the National Latvian Cinematheque (since 1993 ). Since 1996 - professor at the University of Chicago .
Member of the organizing committee of the Tynyanovsky readings , member of the editorial board of the Tynyanovsky collections .
Monographs
- Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1908-1919. London 1989
- The historical reception of cinema: cinema in Russia, 1895-1930. Riga, 1991
- Dialog with the screen. Tallinn, 1994 (co-authored with J. M. Lotman )
- Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception. London Chicago, 1994 (reprint 1998)
- "Ivan the Terrible." London, 2002
- The Great Kinemo. The catalog of preserved feature films of Russia. 1908-1919 M., 2002 (with a team of authors)
- Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties. Pordenone 2004
- On the approaches to carpalism. Movement and gesture in literature, art and cinema. M., 2010
- Cinema in St. Petersburg. 1896-1917. St. Petersburg, 2011 (co-authored with A. Kovalova)
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Literature
- From words to body: Collection of articles on the sixtieth anniversary of Yuri Tsivyan / Comp. Alexander Lavrov , Alexander Ospovat , Roman Tymenchik . M.: New Literary Review , 2010 (Scientific supplement. Issue LXVI)