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[PAST EVENT] The Truth": Soviet and Post-Soviet Documentary Cinema

October 26, 2012
3:30pm
Location
Washington Hall, Room 301
241 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Erin Alpert ('07) Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, will give a talk titled, "The Truth": Soviet and Post-Soviet Documentary Cinema. Here is a brief description: "Documentary cinema played a key role in Soviet intellectuals' fight against political censorship during Gorbachev's perestroika. The lecture examines the evolution of Russo-Soviet documentary cinema as an art form and industry in the late USSR and post-Soviet Russia."