Come to this talk on Tuesday!

Prof. Larsen in Russian Studies has asked me to tell people about this talk, and since it relates to Media Studies, I figured that the blog would be a good place to start...

CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND THE SOVIETS

A presentation by Yuri Tsivian (William Colvin Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago)

Tuesday, September 26, 4:15 pm, Hahn 108

This lecture will address the reception of Charlie Chaplin as image and idea by Soviet artists and filmmakers in the 1920s; Soviet perceptions of Chaplin as a "Taylorist" performer; and Soviet attributions of at least one film to Chaplin that Chaplin never made. This is the first in a series on "Borrowed Icons: Pop Culture and Cultural Politics in Russia, Europe, and the United States."

Media studies students interested in attending a dinner with Prof. Tsivian following the lecture should contact: tracy_maclean@pitzer.edu or x77025. Requests will be considered on a first-come basis.

Yuri Tsivian teaches at the University of Chicago, where he is a member of the the Committee for Film and Media Studies, as well as the Departments of Art History, Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Tsivian is a specialist on early film history who has published widely on topics in silent film, the history of film styles, Russian and Soviet film, gesture and performance studies.