JEA Lecture Series, October 17th at 6:45pm
JEA Lecture Series: “Realism and the History of Soviet-Japanese Film Interactions”
Speaker: Anastasia Fedorova (Associate Professor, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, National Research University “Higher School of Economics,” Moscow)
Date: Thursday October 17, 2019
Location & Time: KIBER 110 18:45-20:30
In this talk, Anastasia Fedorova investigates how Japanese and Russian filmmakers, critics, and audiences, interacted with each other through the medium of film. Drawing on primary sources collected in Japan, Russia, and the US, Anastasia presents the concept of realism as a recurrent concern and the chief motivating force behind the interactions between Soviet and Japanese cinema.
Biography
Anastasia Fedorova is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” in Moscow. She is the author of Riarizumu no genso: Nisso eiga koryushi [1925- 1955], which was published by Shinwasha in 2018.