Amherst Center for Russian Culture Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago

Yuri Tsivian, William Colvin Professor Emeritus of film at the University of Chicago. Books: Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception (London, 1994) Ivan the Terrible (London, 2002), Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties (Pordenone, 2004). His newest interest is in digital methods of film studies, see http://www.cinemetrics.lv.