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Yuri Tsivian is an Emeritus faculty member who retired in Spring 2018. He studied film history in Riga, Latvia, and Moscow, Russia, under the guidance of Yuri Lotman, a prominent cultural scholar from Tartu University, Estonia. Tsivian is credited with launching new fields of study in film culture, such as carpalistics and cinemetrics. He has authored a hundred publications in sixteen languages and has made significant contributions to the study and comparison of gesture in theater, visual arts, literature, and film. He also employs digital tools to explore art and film editing. Tsivian has been involved in restoring video and mastering silent films, with notable projects including an audio essay for the DVD version of Dziga Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera" and an audiovisual essay on Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible". Additionally, he produced an English-Russian CD-ROM titled "Immaterial Bodies: Cultural Anatomy of Early Russian Films". In 2001, he received an award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for an interactive learning project.
Department of Philosophy