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...

American Utopia: Socio-economic Critique and Utopia in American Honey and The Florida Project

Intimate Terrains: Contemporary German Cinema, Migration, and the Films of Aysun Bademsoy

Cinema Never Dies: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames and The Ontology of the Digital Image

Woody Allen: Television as Crisis

“The People Are Missing”: New Refugee Documentaries and Carceral Humanitarianism

Of liberation, and of states of undress and redress both: The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

This Is the Way the World Ends: The 10th Odesa Film Festival

22nd Revelation Perth Film Festival

Sharing My Journey: Women and the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Ambling Along The Long Horizon of History: The 24^th Il Cinema Ritrovato

This Is Not Another Reading of a Master: The Invention of Robert Bresson: the Auteur and his Market, by Colin Burnett

From April! April! to Imitation of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk, by Tom Ryan

“Mesdames, mesdemoiselles, messieurs: un classique!”: Eric Rohmer’s Film Theory (1948-1953) – From ‘École Scherer’ to ‘Politique des Auteurs’ by Marco Grosoli

Political Gestures: Cinema/Politics/Philosophy, by Nico Baumbach

Subjectivity, Spectatorship and Social Change: The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone and Wang Chi

Intimate Interiors: The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)

“Judge Tenderly of Me!”: Terence Davies’ Letter to Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016)

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (Lynn-Maree Milburn & Richard Lowenstein, 2011)

Hear That Lonesome Whippoorwill: Terence Davies’ The Neon Bible (1995)

Voices With(out) a Face: On Robert Bresson’s Procès de Jeanne d’Arc

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Author Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina

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