Your Past is my Present: Does evoking historical analogies change public opinion regarding foreign policy? (with Anil Menon)

19 West 4th Street, Room 217 New York, NY

Seeking international support to counter Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly addressed foreign politicians and publics in several democratic nations. Media coverage paid special attention to his explicit use of historical analogies – comparing Ukraine’s current situation to salient historical events in the audience countries – to sway public opinion. Since […]

Eisenstein’s Red Thread: a Genealogy of the Strike Film (with Sarah Wells)

New York, NY

The 1920s witnesses the emergence of the feature-length strike film as a world cinema form.  This talk examines the formidable impact of Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike (1925) on this untheorized corpus of global filmmaking. Not merely a topic — i.e., a representation of strikes on screen — the strike film is a struggle by filmmakers over how […]