Lilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor
Contact
Phone: (217) 333-6157
Email: lilya@illinois.edu
Office: 3038 FLB
Homepage: http://www.complit.illinois.edu/lilya/Profile.html
Degree
Ph.D., University of California Berkley, 2000
Affiliated Faculty in
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Media and Cinema Studies, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Major Interests
Soviet literature and film; film and critical theory; gender studies; nineteenth century novel; modernism.
Current Projects
The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1928-1935
Soviet women's cinema: Kira Muratova and Larisa Shepit'ko
Publications
Books
- Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s, eds. Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky and Robert A. Rushing (Duke University Press, 2013)
- Sound, Music, Speech in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema, eds. Lilya Kaganovsky and Masha Salazkina (Indiana University Press, Fall 2013).
- How the Soviet Man Was Unmade (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).
Articles/Book Chapters
- “The Homogenous Thinking Subject or Soviet Cinema Learns to Sing,”Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 6.3 (2012).
- “‘Maidenform’: Masculinity as Masquerade,” in Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s, eds. Lauren M. E. Goodlad, LilyaKaganovsky and Robert A. Rushing (Duke UP, 2013).
- “Postmemory, Counter-memory: Soviet Cinema of the 1960s,” in The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World,eds. Anne Gorsuch and Diane Koenker (Indiana UP, 2012).
- “Ways of Seeing: on Kira Muratova’s Brief Encounters and Larisa Shepit’ko’s Wings,” The Russian Review,Vol. 71, No. 3 (July 2012): 482-499.
- “Electric Speech: Dziga Vertov and the Technologies of Sound,” in Resonanz-Räume: die Stimme und die Medien, ed. Oksana Bulgakowa, Berlin, Bertz & Fischer (2012).
- “There is no acoustic relation: Considerations on sound and image in post-Soviet film,” Qui parle: critical humanities and social sciences (vol. 19.1, fall/winter 2010): 65-87.
- "The Cultural Logic of Late Socialism," Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 3.2 (2009): 185-99.
- «Гонка вооружений, трансгендер, и застой: Волк и Заяц в кон/подтексте холодной войны» [The Arms Race, Transgender, and Stagnation: Wolf and Hare in the Con/Subtext of the Cold War] in Veselye chelovechki: Kul'turnye geroi sovetskogo detstva [Funny Little People: The Cultural Heroes of the Soviet Childhood]. Ed. by Mark Lipovetsky, et al. (Moscow, NLO, 2008), 378-392.
- “Solaris and the White, White Screen,” in Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, ed. Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger (Yale UP, 2008).
- “‘I open my eyes and I see nothing’: Sokurov, Nostalgia, and the Limits of Vision,” Culture et mémoire: quelles représentations?, Les Éditions de l’École Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2008.
- “The Voice of Technology and the End of Soviet Silent Film: Grigorii Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s Alone,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema Vol. 1, number 3 (2007): 265-281.
- “Men Wanted: Female Masculinity in Sergei Livnev’s Hammer and Sickle,” Slavic and East European Journal Vol. 51, number 2 (2007): 229-246.
- “Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk’s The Road to Life,” in Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture, ed. Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux (Northern Illinois P, 2006), 146-175.
- “Visual Pleasure in Stalinist Cinema: Ivan Pyr’ev’s The Party Card,” in Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside, ed. Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman (Indiana UP, 2005), 35-60.
- "How the Soviet Man Was (Un)Made" in Slavic Review,Vol. 63, Number 3 (Fall 2004), 577-596 .
Book reviews
- Jamie Miller. Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinem. Forthcoming Fall 2010.
- Keith A. Livers. Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s. Canadian Slavonic Papers/ Revue canadienne des Slavistes. 52.1-2 (March-June 2010): 169-170.
- Eliot Borenstein, Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Culture and Society After Socialism). Slavic and East European Journal 53. 2 (Summer, 2009): 316-318.
- Rolf Helebust. Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution. The Russian Review 67. 1 (January 2008): 117-118.
- Liderman, Yulia. Motivy “proverki” i “ispytaniia” v postsovetskoi kul’ture. Slavic Review 67. 2 (Summer 2008): 525-526.
- Haynes, John. New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema. In Slavic and East European Journal, Winter, 2004 (48.4): 693-694.
Film Reviews
- Hessman, Robin. My Perestroika. Huguier, Françoise. Kommunalka. Slavic Review(2012).
- Bulgakowa, Oksana. The Factory of Gestures: Body Language in Film(DVD). Cinema Journal 51.3(2012): 168-170.
- Storozheva, Vera. Kompensatsia [Compensation]. KinoKultura 32, April 2011.
- Solov’ev, Sergei. 2-ASSA-2. KinoKultura 26, October 2009.
- Shakhnazarov, Karen. Ischeznuvshaia imperiia. In KinoKultura 22, October 2008.