The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures

Edited by Aga Skrodzka, Xiaoning Lu, and Katarzyna Marciniak

Aga Skrodzka is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Clemson University, where she spearheaded the creation of the World Cinema Program. She is the author of Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe and a forthcoming book on the figure of the sex slave in visual culture.

Xiaoning Lu is Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Cultures at SOAS, University of London. Her research, which focuses on Chinese socialist cinema and culture, has appeared in journals and edited collections including the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Journal of Contemporary China, Maoist Laughter, and Words and Their Stories: Essays on Chinese Revolutionary Discourse.

Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor of Transnational Studies at Ohio University, where she specializes in the discourses of immigration and foreignness. She is the author of Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland and co-editor of Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy and Transnational Feminism in Film and Media.

Contributors:

Djurdja Bartlett, Reader in Histories and Cultures of Fashion, University of the Arts London

Sara Blaylock, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota Duluth

William C. Brumfield, Professor of Slavic Studies and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies, Tulane University

María A. Cabrera Arús, Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor, Brown University

Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Independent Scholar and Curator, Resident Historian, Wende Museum

Lindiwe Dovey, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London

April Eisman, Associate Professor of Art History, Iowa State University

Antonia Finnane, Honorary Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne

Dana Healy, Senior Lecturer in Vietnamese Studies, SOAS University of London

Nick Hodgin, Lecturer in German Studies, Cardiff University

Anikó Imre, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

Rohan Kalyan, Assistant Professor of International Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

Yulia Karpova, Assistant Archivist at Open Society Archives at Central European University

Vivian Y. Li, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art

Jacqueline Loss, Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut

Xiaoning Lu, Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Cultures, SOAS, University of London

Joshua Malitsky, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University

Katarzyna Marciniak, Professor of Transnational Studies, Ohio University

Laura U. Marks, Grant Strate University Professor in Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University

Magdalena Moskalewicz, Lecturer of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Doreen Mende, Associate Professor in Visual Arts, HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design

Pablo Müller, Senior Research Associate, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Stephen M. Norris, Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University

Serguei Alex. Oushakine, Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

Constantin Parvulescu, Senior Researcher in Film and Media Studies, Babes-Bolyai University

Birgitte Beck Pristed, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Aarhus University

Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture, University of Valencia

Aga Skrodzka, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Clemson University

Iulia Stătică, Visiting Scholar at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University

Jaroslav Švelch, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Charles University

Claudiu Turcuş, Associate Professor in Film and Literary Studies, Babes-Bolyai University

Travis Workman, Associate Professor in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Kimberly E. Zarecor, Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University