Dear, Queer, and Slow: Soviet Cinema Remembered

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel considers Soviet cinema of the 1920s to 1960s from the point of view of spectatorship. We will discuss queerness in Uzbek films of the 1920s, narratives audience tell themselves when they remember movies, and the ideological and aesthetic implications of slowness.

Sub Unit

• Cinema, Television, Electronic Media

Chair

• Maria Belodubrovskaya, U of Chicago

Papers

• Representation and Performativity in Uzbek Cinema of the 1920s - Vincent Morrison Bohlinger, Rhode Island College

• Slow Cinema and Soviet Staging - Maria Belodubrovskaya, U of Chicago

Discussant

• Birgit Beumers, Aberystwyth U (UK)