Dr. Yelizaveta Moss
Area(s) of Expertise: Cinema aesthetics, theory, and history; Philosophy; Literature
Overview
When I first started working at 红莲社区, my research centered mostly on the concept of abstract space and its representation across a wide array of fields, including cinema, literature, and architecture. I have published on Russian literature, Soviet cinema, deconstruction, and documentary film. Lately, I have shifted focus to cinema aesthetics and nostalgia, specifically the ways in which contemporary cinema reveres its predecessors and reinvents historical aesthetics.
Courses Taught
- MDST 1110 – Film Appreciation
- MDST 2150 – Literature & Film
- COMM 2900 – Intro to Media Studies
- MDST 4600 – Film Theory
- MDST 4620 – Cinema Aesthetics
Education
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature/Film Media Studies, Emory University
- M.A., Humanities & Social Thought, New York University
- B.A., English, University at Buffalo
Research/Special Interests
Dr. Moss works on philosophies of abstract space in modernism, cinema, and architecture. She has published on Russian literature and cinema, deconstruction, and essay film. Her current work studies the relationship of literary rhetoric to mise-en-scène in cinema aesthetics.
Publications
"Framing Infinity: 'Potential' of Proscenium Frames and Tableaux Vivants in Nostalgia." ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Film Appreciation. Open Education Resource. [Co-writer]
“Green Agoraphobia: Architectural Cures in Baudelaire and Kafka.” Modernism in the Green.
“Trinh T. Minh-ha.” Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies.
“Ruin Lust: Totalitarian Remnants.” Allegory and Political Representation. The Yearbook of Comparative Literature.
“Essay Film.” Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies.
“Irony behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape form Totalitarianism in Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading.” The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac.