51勛圖厙

Daniel Schwartz

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Daniel Schwartz
Contact Information
Email address: 
daniel.schwartz2 [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

680Sherbrooke St. West, Room 0483
Montr矇al, Qu矇bec
H3A 2M7

Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext 00571
Office: 
483
Research areas: 
Russian Studies
German Studies
Biography: 

Daniel Schwartz is an assistant professor in Russian and German Cinemas at 51勛圖厙. His research focuses on the intersection of sound studies, Russian and German cinema, urban studies, and documentary film. His book City Symphonies: Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913-1931 has been published with McGill-Queens University Press (2024). In it, he explores the unheard sonic dimensions of ostensibly silent city symphony films by drawing attention to city-symphonic experiments outside the cinema, particularly those in music, mass spectacle, and radio. His articles may be found in Cinema Journal; Slavic Review; Studies in Eastern-European Cinema; Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema; and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.

Selected Publications:

Book

City Symphonies: Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913-1931. Montr矇al: McGill-Queens University Press, 2024.

Articles

Savage Youth: Documentary and Desire in the Cinema of Dinara Asanova, in Sexuality, Nudity, and the Body in Soviet Cinema, edited by Birgit Beumers, Catherine G矇ry, Eug矇nie Zvonkine (in production).

Did I Hear Right? Resounding Archival Images in the Films of Sergei Loznitsa Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema, edited by Yuri Leving (in production).

As (Un)Seen from Space: Soviet Collapse and the Unwatchable in Andrei Ujic's Out of the Present. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, 2 (2024): 76-95. DOI: .

Absurd Justice: Documenting the Show Trial in Sergei Loznitsas The Trial (2018), Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 17, 2 (2023): 94-112. DOI: 10.1080/17503132.2023.2202071

Documentary Without Borders: Salome Lamass Extinction and the Orientalism of Post-Soviet Borders and Space, Studies in Eastern European Cinema 12, 3 (2021): 237-259. DOI: 10.1080/2040350X.2020.1822586

Between Sound and Silence: The Failure of the Symphony of Sirens in Baku (1922) and Moscow (1923) Slavic Review 79, 1 (Spring 2020): 51-75.

Sounding the Inaudible: Rethinking the Musical Analogy in the City Symphonies of Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 12, 1 (Spring 2018): 1-31.

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