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Vile Bodies: Reassessing Chernukha in Recent RussianCinema

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Join us for a talk with Daria Ezerova, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Harriman Institute. It has become clear that chernukha was neither a one-time Soviet phenomenon, nor limited exclusively to the Russian context. And yet, the reemergence of chernukha aesthetics in the Russian cinema of the mid-2000s was unexpected, to say the least. Neither a response to a degenerated political…