Author Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina is a PhD student in the joint program in Film and Media Studies & Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Anastasia’s academic interests lie within documentary history and theory with particular focus on the relationships between documentary and ideology. Prior to joining Yale University, Anastasia worked as a documentary film editor for the state-sponsored Russian news TV-channel RT.

1927: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Esfir Shub)

Anastasia Kostina

December 2017

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

Issue 85

Compiling History for Masses: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty In August 1926, Sovkino, the Soviet state body in control of cinema production, commissioned Esfir Shub to make a film commemorating the tenth...

The Sense of Feminism Then and Now: Yours in Sisterhood (2018) and Embodied Listening in the Cinema Praxis of Irene Lusztig

Audience and Performance in Kid Auto Races at Venice

Over-identification in The Castle: Recovering an Australian Classic’s Subversive Edge

Four Years of the Nitrate Picture Show, Part 1: Beautiful Colour – Tinting and Toning

The Seventies Reloaded: (What does the cinema think about when it dreams of Baudrillard?)

#Youmustsee: The 2018 Adelaide International Film Festival

Towards the De-masculinisation of Korean Cinema: The 23rd Busan International Film Festival

Between Hollywood and the Socialist/Colonial East: The 5th Hanoi International Film Festival

Film Culture and Corporate Enterprise at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival

Flying Dreams of a Fledgling Festival: The 3rd Middle East International Film Festival

Beyond Thumbs Up or Down: Aesthetic Evaluation and Film, by Andrew Klevan

Film in a Multiple Mirror: Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art by Ivo Blom

McCarthyism’s Hollywood Year: Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, by Thomas Doherty

The Semiotics of Wes Anderson: Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis, by Warren Buckland

Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre by Dennis Bingham

“I Do Not Believe”: Night of the Eagle (Sidney Hayers, 1962)

Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)

The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)

The Power of Imagination: The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)

Naruse’s Repast (Meshi, 1951)

Takahata, Isao

Dovzhenko, Alexander

Weerasethakul, Apichatpong

Oliveira, Manoel de

Edwards, Blake

Author Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina

1927: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Esfir Shub)