Alexander Prokhorov. Curriculum Vitae
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Books
Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition: Genres, Technologies, Identities (Film and Media Studies).
Eds. Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, Rimgaila Salys.
Academic Studies Press, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv249sgpk
Reviews:
Slavic Review, Volume 82,1(2023): 273-274. doi: 10.1017/slr.2023.157
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema Vol. 17.1(2023): 55-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2167557
The Jordan Center at NYU Newsletter (October 2022).
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 42.3(2022), 627–628. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2022.2083135
The Russian Review (2022)
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. 25(2023), 155-159. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.14
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context.
Eds. Condee, Nancy, Prokhorov, Alexander and Prokhorova, Elena.
Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644692721
Reviews:
Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, 70, 2022(3-4): 661-663.
Slavic Review, Volume 79 , Issue 4 , Winter 2020 , pp. 888 - 890. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.2
Studies in European Cinema, Volume 19, issue 4, 2020, pp. 437-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2020.1851991
Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era.
co-authored with Elena Prokhorova.
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
Reviews:
MEDIENwissenschaft (4-2018)
Slavic Review Vol. 77, No. 2 (SUMMER 2018), pp. 547-548
Prokhorov, Alexander.
Inherited Discourse: Stalinist Paradigms in Thaw Literature and Cinema.
Unasledovannyi diskurs: paradigmy stalinskoi kul’tury v literature i kino ottepeli.
St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii Proekt, 2007.
Special Issues of Peer-Reviewed Journals
Critical Quarterly Volume 63, issue 3. Special Issue Putin ~ Culture. October 2021.
Eds. Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova.
https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12622
Articles
Prokhorov, Alexander and Elena Prokhorova.
“The Bondarchuk Dynasty: Two Generations of Imperial(ist) State-Sponsored Celebrities.”
Starlight and Stargazers: Slavic Screen Celebrities.
Ed. Helena Goscilo. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
979-8887194998
“The Bondarchuk Dynasty: Two Generations of Imperial(ist) State-Sponsored Celebrities.”
Starlight and Stargazers: Slavic Screen Celebrities.
Ed. Helena Goscilo. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2024.
979-8887194998
Prokhorov, Alexander and Elena Prokhorova.
"Constructing the Pop Diva: Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, and the Celebrity Musical of the 1970s–1980s."
Singing a Different Tune: The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context.
Ed. Helena Goscilo. Academic Studies Press, 2023.
Prokhorov, Alexander and Elena Prokhorova.
“’Lepota!’: postutopicheskie komedii Gaidaia.”
Chelovek s briliantovoi rukoi. K stoletiiu Leonida Gaidaia.
Ed. Jan Levchenko. Kinoteksty series.
Moscow: New Literary Review (NLO), 2023. 120-143.
https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/kinoteksty/25475/
Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov.
"Genre Constructions of Childhood in Recent Russian TV Series."
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood: Myths and Realities.
Eds. Marina Balina, Larissa Rudova, and Anastasia Kostetskaya.
New York: Routledge, 2022.
Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov, Rimgaila Salys.
“Glocalizing Neo-Noir: Iury Bykov’s The Method and Sleepers.”
Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition: Genres, Technologies, Identities, edited by Elena Prokhorova et al.,
Academic Studies Press, 2022, pp. 165–89.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv249sgpk.11
Prokhorova, Elena, and Alexander Prokhorov.
“Putin-Era Television Productions about Catherine the Great: Active Measures as Period Drama.”
Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition: Genres, Technologies, Identities.
edited by Elena Prokhorova et al.
Academic Studies Press, 2022, pp. 98–113. JSTOR,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv249sgpk.8
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Dead Man’s Bluff.”
History of Russian and Soviet Cinema.
Volume 3.
Ed. Rimgaila Salys.
Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 35-51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618119650-003
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"Funktionen alternativer historischer Narrative in Aleksej Veršinins Fernsehserie Al’ternativnaja istorija („Alternative Geschichte“)."
“What if?: Functions of Alternate Historical Narratives in Aleksei Vershinin’s Television Series.”
Interventionen in die Zeit: Kontrafaktisches Erzählen und Erinnerungskultur.
Eds. Riccardo Nicolosi, Brigitte Obermayr, Nina Weller.
Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019. 199-209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657787333_011
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Images of 'Posthumous Subjectivity' in Fedorchenko's Angels of Revolution.”
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. 13.3(2019): 260-267.
DOI: 10.1080/17503132.2019.1644793
Prokhorov, Alexander and Elena Prokhorova. “Un/Taming the Unruly Woman: from Melodramatic Containment to Carnivalistic Utopia.”
Women Behaving Badly: Great Scenes from Russian and East European Culture. London: Routledge, 2016. 30-49.
Prokhorov, Alexander and Jes Therkelsen.
“Visualizing St. Petersburg: Using Documentary Production in a Short Term Study Abroad Program to Enhance Oral Proficiency, Media Literacy, and Research Skills”
Journal of Film and Video 67.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2015): 112-125.
DOI: 10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0112
Prokhorov, Alexander
“Russian and Soviet Adventure Film.”
Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2. Ed. Birgit Beumers. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2014. ISBN-10: 9781783200108.
66-70.
Plus ten edited entries by contributing authors pp. 71-95.
“Reconfiguring the War and Family Tropes in Thaw-Era Homefront Melodrama”
History of Russian and Soviet Cinema.
Volume 2.
Ed. Rimgaila Salys. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013. 37-52.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Leonid Gaidai’s Operation Y and Other Adventures of Shurik.” Noev kovčeg russkogo kino. Ot 'Sten'ki Razina' do 'Stiljag'. Ed. Ekaterina Vassilieva and Nikita Braguinski.
Vinnytsia, Ukraine: Globus-Press 2012. 223-238
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“She Defends His Motherland: The Myth of Mother Russia in Soviet Maternal Melodrama of the 1940s.” Embracing Arms: Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War. Ed. Yana Hashamova.
Budapest: Central European UP, 2012. 59-80.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“The Myth of the “Great Family” in Marlen Khutsiev’s Lenin’s Guard and Mark Osep’ian’s Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev.” Eds. Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010. 29-50.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Debunking Myths Old and New: Iurii Mamin’s Satires in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema.”
Uncensored: Humor and Satire in Post-Soviet Russia. Eds. Olga Mesropova and Seth Graham.
Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2009. 101-116.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Three Buratinos: The Evolution of the Soviet Film Hero.” The Club of Small Media Heroes.
Eds. Maria Mayofis, Ilya Kikulin, Mark Lipovetsky.
Moscow: New Literary Review (NLO), 2008. 153-180.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Arresting Development: A Brief History of Soviet Cinema for Children and Adolescents.”
Russian Children’s Literature and Culture.
Eds. Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova. Series Editor Jack Zipes.
London: Routledge, 2007. 129-152.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“The Adolescent and the Child in Thaw Cinema: The Politics of Age and Gender.”
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 1.2 (2007): 115-129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/srsc.1.2.115_1
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Arresting Development: A Brief History of Soviet Cinema for Children and Adolescents.”
Russian Children’s Literature and Culture.
Eds. Marina Balina and Larissa Rudova. Series Editor Jack Zipes.
London: Routledge, 2007. 129-152.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
“Cinemasculinity: The Stalinist Man and Thaw Era Delinquents.”
Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 64 (2006): 99-112.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"Size Matters: The Ideological Functions of the Length of Soviet Feature Films and Television Mini-Series in the 1950s and 1960s" Kinokultura: A Journal of New Russian Cinema April (2006)
http://www.kinokultura.com/2006/issue12.shtml
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"A Person is Born: Stalinist Myth of the Great Family in Film Genres of the Thaw.
Chelovek rodilsia: stalinskii mif o bol’shoi sem’e v kinozhanrakh ottepeli. " Family Ties: Models for Construction. Semeinye uzy: modeli dlia sborki. Ed. Serguei Oushakine.
Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (NLO), 2005. 114-34.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"Marina Anatol’evna Palei."
Russian Writers Since 1980. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky. Vol. 285.
Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 2004. 196-202.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"Accomodating Consumers' Desires: El'dar Riazanov's Memoirs in Soviet and Postsoviet Russia."
Reading Russian Memoirs. Edited by Beth Holmgren. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2003. 70-90.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"Cinema of Attractions versus Narrative Cinema: Leonid Gaidai’s Comedies and El’dar Riazanov’s Satires of the 1960s. "
Slavic Review 62.3 Fall(2003): 455-73.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"Soviet Family Melodrama of the 1940s and 50s: From Wait For Me To Cranes Are Flying."
Imitations of Life. Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia.
Editors Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger.
Durham: Duke UP, 2002. 208-32.
Helena Goscilo and Alexander Prokhorov.
"Absurdity Normalized: Irony in Dovlatov's Ours."
Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature.
Ed. Janet Tucker.
Bloomington: Slavica, 2002. 149-66.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"Bodies in the Stalinist Museum of Hammer and Sickle"
Studies in Slavic Cultures 1(2000): 28-47.
Prokhorov, Alexander.
"On uslykhal rasskazy Ossiana: variago-rosskie ballady Derzhavina 'Novgorodskii volkhv Zlogor' i 'Zhilishche bogini Friggi'."
Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1816).
Eds. Efim Etkind and Svetlana Elnitskaia. Northfield: The Russian School of Norwich University, 1995. 257-268.
"Utopiia v romane i utopiia protiv romana: sravnitel'nyi analiz sna Oblomova i snov Very Pavlovny." Graduate Essays in Slavic Languages and Literatures 8(1995): 53-64.
"Functional-Semantic Description of Lexemes as the Way To Teach Russian on the Basis of Linguistic Distintive Features: A Case Study of Russian Possessive Verbs." "Funktsional'no-semanticheskoe opisanie leksiki--put' k obucheniiu iazyku na osnove chetkikh lingvisticheskikh kriteriev (na primere LSG glagolov so znacheniem "possessivnoe nalichie"." Problems of Teaching Russian as a Second Language. Problemy prepodavaniia russkogo iazyka v inoiazychnoi auditorii. Moscow: Patrice Lumumba UP, 1989. 111-18.
"A Semantic Description of the Verbs of Possession in Russian."
New Directions in Modern Linguistics (Aktual'nye problemy sovremennogo iazykoznaniia).
Ed. V. Teliia. Moscow: Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Science, 1989. 70-71.
Invited Talks
“Russian Crime TV Drama: From the Bright Future to Neo-Noir.”
Slavic Colloquium, The MacMillan Center,
Yale University
October 2021
The Post-Human As The New Othen: Cyborgs, Fembots, And Androids In Russian Television Series.
The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
New York, NY, 6 April 2021
“Russian TV Series of Post-Broadcast Era.”
Columbia University, The Harriman Institute.
New York, NY, 17 November 2020
“Soviet Epic Film during the Cold War.”
Lecture for the Center of Russian and East European Studies,
University of Virginia, Charlotteville, VA
6 February 2016
“Border Guard as a Character in Stalinist Cinema.”
Ohio State University, Spring 2014
“Christian Personages in Russian Folk Belief.” Gallery 5, Richmond, VA. Lecture of the International Russian Art’s Festival Mending Fences. November 2006.
Interviews, Films, Digital Humanities Projects
Interview for The Spectator.
Theo Zhenou. “The spy movie that set Putin on the path to the KGB.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-spy-movie-that-set-putin-on-the-path-to-the-kgb/
4 March, 2023
Interview for Radio Liberty/Radio Svoboda.
“Russian TV-Series in American Context.
Russkie serialy v amerikanskom kontekste.”
For the program Genis: A View from New York. Genis vzgliad iz N’iu Iorka
https://www.svoboda.org/a/russkie-serialy-v-amerikanskom-kontekste/31599227.html
https://www.svoboda.org/a/31584080.html
13 December, 2021
Cinema and Memory in St. Petersburg.
A digital humanities study of moviegoing experiences in St. Petersburg, Russia
2016-to the present.
https://rmtp.wm.edu/
Documentary film: Visualizing St. Petersburg.
Produced by Alexander Prokhorov, directed by Jes Therkelsen. 2011.
Reviews of Books and Films
Tsymbal, Evgeny. The Birth of Stalker/Rozhdenie ‘Stalkera’: Popytka rekonstruktsii. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2023, ). ISBN 978-5-4448-1792-6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2204040
Stop-Zemlia (Ukraine), directed by Kateryna Gornostai, in Kinokultura (Focus on Ukraine) issue 77(2022) http://www.kinokultura.com/2022/77UA_stop-zemlia.shtml
Leving, Yuri. A Revolution of the Visible/Revoliutsiia zrimogo. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. Slavic Review , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , Winter 2020. 890 - 891
Belodubrovskaya, Maria. Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin. Cornell UP, 2017. Slavic Review vol. 78.2(Summer 2019): 603-604.
A Call to Father (Kazakhstan), directed by Serik Aprymov,
in Kinokultura: A Journal of New Russian Cinema (on-line journal of scholarship on Russian cinema) 64 April (2019)
Petrov, Petre. Automatic for the Masses: The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2015. The Russian and Post-Soviet Review (brill.nl/spsr) vol. 44.3(2017): 373-378.
Kozlov, Denise and Eleonory Gilbird, eds. The Thaw: Soviet society and culture during the 1950s and 1960s. University of Toronto Press, 2013. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema vol. 8(2014.3): 241-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2014.969923
Lead (Uzbekistan), directed by Zulfikar Musakov,
in Kinokultura: A Journal of New Russian Cinema (on-line journal of scholarship on Russian cinema), 40 April (2013)
Youngblood, Denise, Russian War Films: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005.. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 2007. Xvi + 319 pp.
Co-authored with my student Richard Olson.
Slavonic and East European Review 87.3(July 2009): 547-48.
Mongol (Kazakhstan,Russia,Mongolia,Germany), directed by Sergei Bodrov,
in Kinokultura: A Journal of New Russian Cinema (on-line refereed journal of scholarship on Russian cinema), April (2008)
“The Mother-Wolf of Ves’egonsk, directed by Nikolai Solovtsov,” in Kinokultura: A Journal of New Russian Cinema (on-line journal of scholarship on Russian cinema), July (2005)
“Fillipp Iankovskii, In Motion (V dvizhenii).”
Kinokultura, October (2003).
http://www.kinokultura.com/reviews/R103moving.html
Conference Scholarly Papers, Talks
Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov.
“Keeping Public Space Free in the Age of Repression: Anti-War Street Art and Its Digital Archive by Aleksandra Arkhipova”
Tropes of Subversion Conference and Lab
Columbia University, Harriman Institute. New York, NY, 1 May, 2024
Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov.
“Our Serial Killers, Ourselves: Russian Neo-Noir TV Series as a Symptom and Self- Incrimination.”
International Conference at the Laboratory for Studies of Visual Culture and Contemporary
Art Media Strategies in the Age of Information Wars
European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 14 December 2023.
“Life Became Merrier, Yet Again: Genres of Gossmekh 2.0.”
Panel: Weaponized Laughter: Uses of Satire in Russia’s Information War against Ukraine and Modes of Resistance to the Media Aggression.
ASEEES Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2 December, 2023.
“TV Rain & Echo: Independent Broadcasting and Its Challenges.”
International Conference Displaced Life-Worlds: From Émigré to "Relocant"? Making Sense of Fifth Wave After 2022 in https://neweastcinema.pitt.edu/
University of Pittsburgh, May 2023.
“Staying Alive in Neo-Liberal Russian: Gender and Agency in Ordinary Women.”
International Conference “Melodrama and Melodramatic Imagination in Russia: New Perspectives.
Slavic-Eurasian Research Cenrer, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. August 1-3, 2022.
“Gender and Agency in Major Cherkasov TV Thrillers”
ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington DC, November 2020