Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 Soviet Attitudes to Persia and Western Asia in the Armenian Epic Khaspush (Armenia, 1927)". Followed by the screening of the film (73 min.)

DateTimeLocation
Tuesday, November 6, 20127:00PM - 9:00PMExternal Event, Town Hall, Innis College (2, Sussex Ave.)

Description

Khas Push, one of the first major films produced by the Soviet Armenian film studios, was billed as a non-exotic, non-Orientalist, Marxist vision of class struggle in Western Asia.

Sergei Kapterev specializes in the stylistic, intellectual and political interaction between American and Soviet cinema, and is presently writing a monograph on this topic.


Speakers

Sergei Kapterev
Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow


Main Sponsor

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Co-Sponsors

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, History

Department of History

Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies

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