Anne Nesbet
PhD, University of California, D.E.A. Universite de Paris, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Film & Media

Address
Slavic Languages & Literatures
6209 Dwinelle
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
510.642.2642
Email: nesbet@berkeley.edu

Bio

Anne Nesbet’s research interests include Early Soviet Culture, Sergei Eisenstein, Silent Film, Russian and Soviet Film, Children’s Literature, Neurobiology and Film, Architecture and Film.

Current projects: “Soviet Cinema and the Construction of Architectural Space”; “What We Think We See:  Film Theory and Neurobiology Go to the Movies.”

Selected Publications

Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking (London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003; 2007).

“Skyscrapers, Consular Territory, and Hell:  Some Effects of Ilf and Petrov’s America on Soviet Cultural Space,” forthcoming in Slavic Review (2010).

“Emile Zola, Kozintsev and Trauberg, and Film as Department Store,” The Russian Review, Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 2009).

“’The Building to be Built’:  Gogol, Bely, Eisenstein, and the Architecture of the Future,” The Russian Review, Vol. 65, No. 3 (July 2006).

“Understanding Man with a Movie Camera,” Film Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 1 (2005).

“Ivan the Terrible and the ‘Juncture of Beginning and End,’” in Eisenstein at 100:  A Reconsideration, ed. Barry Scherr, Rutgers University Press, 2001.

“Savage Thinking:  Metamorphosis in the Cinema of S. M. Eisenstein,” in Metamorphosis in Russian Literature, ed. Peter Barta, Central European University Press, 2000.

“Inanimations: Snow White and Ivan the Terrible,” Film Quarterly, vol. 50, no 4, 1997.

“Documentary Discipline: Three Interrogations of Stanislav Govorukhin,” (written jointly with Eric Naiman) in Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia, Nancy Condee, editor, (Indiana UP, 1995).