Maria Yuryevna Kuvshinova (February 10, 1978 , Moscow ) - Russian journalist, film critic. The author of the first biography of the director Alexei Balabanov ("Balabanov", 2013, 2015) and the book "Cinema as a visual code." The curator (along with Ivan Chuvilyaev) of the Offside regional film program at the Tomorrow / 2morrow festival .
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 Maria Kuvshinova at the premiere of the film "Tribe" by Miroslav Slaboshpitsky. St. Petersburg, 2015 | |
| Date of Birth | February 10, 1978 ( 41) |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Russia |
| Occupation | journalist , film critic |
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Career
Maria Kuvshinova was born in 1978 in Moscow in the family of Yuri Yakovlevich Kuvshinov, professor at Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. In 2000 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University with a degree in newspaper journalism.
In 2001 - 2004 - correspondent of the culture department of the Izvestia newspaper . In 2007 - Deputy Chief Editor of the Russian version of Empire magazine. From 2005 to 2012, she worked in various positions in InStyle magazine. From 2009 to 2012 - chief editor of the "Cinema" section on the OpenSpace.ru portal (now Colta.ru ). In 2012 - Deputy Chief Editor of WOS.ru. In 2013 - editor of the Afisha magazine and the Cinema section of the Afisha.ru website. At the end of 2013 she moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg and until 2015 held the position of Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Session magazine .
Books
- "Balabanov." In 2013, in the Black Series of the Session publishing house (which also includes the books Sokurov, Muratova and the Herman preparing for publication), the book Balabanov [1] was published. The first part of the book - the biography of Alexei Balabanov - was written by Maria Kuvshinova on the basis of original interviews with Alexei Balabanov, with Sergey Selyanov , Nadezhda Vasilyeva and other colleagues and relatives of the director. The second part of the book is a collection of essays by leading Russian critics ( Andrei Plakhov , Anton Dolin , Maxim Semelyak and others), devoted to various aspects of cinema by Alexei Balabanov . In 2015, the second, separate edition of Balabanov’s biography [2] , in which the chapters on the director’s childhood (based on conversations with the director’s mother Inga Aleksandrovna and his friend youth Yevgeny Gorenburg), as well as on the film “ The river . " “Balabanov” by Maria Kuvshinova combines elements of biography and critical analysis of films by Alexei Balabanov. This is the first full biography of the director in Russian.
- "Cinema as a visual code." At the beginning of 2013, she gave a lecture course “Cinema as a visual code” at the Moscow Photoplay school, later the course was re-taught at the Moscow School of New Cinema . In 2014, the Session Publishing House published the book Cinema as a Visual Code [3] , written based on these lecture courses. The first part of the book traces the relationship between different types of art, primarily painting and cinema, and explores the concepts of movement and randomness in art. The second part of the book tells about the history of cinema as a series of successive waves that influence each other (for example, the influence of German expressionism on Hollywood or Italian neorealism on the French new wave). The third part describes the transformations that cinema has experienced and continues to experience in the digital age.
- “Alexander Mindadze. From Soviet to Post-Soviet. ”
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Links
- Maria Kuvshinova on the website of the magazine "Session"
- Maria Kuvshinova on OpenSpace.ru
- Maria Kuvshinova on the Poster website
- Review of the book by Maria Kuvshinova “Cinema as a visual code” on the site “Metropol”
- "Butterfly Cinema". Interview with Maria Kuvshinova in the Sinefant newspaper
- "There’s no even hatred for Moscow, but there is total indifference." Interview with Maria Kuvshinova to the Kommersant-Weekend newspaper
- What kind of movie do critics like? Interview with Maria Kuvshinova to the subtitles newspaper