Rimgaila "Rima" Salys is Professor Emerita of Russian Program at the
University of Colorado Boulder and an expert in 20th century Russian literature, film, and culture.
Her research interests include
Soviet and
post-Soviet cinema, 20th century Russian art and culture, theory and praxis of
literary modernism
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented ...
, and Soviet cinematic musical.
Of note is her research in the history of the Patterson family of black expatriates in the Soviet Union, which included
James Patterson, who played the black baby boy in the famous soviet musical ''
Circus''.
She graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania and
Harvard University in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
From 1994 to 2014 she taught at the
University of Colorado Boulder, where she served as Associate Chair for Russian and Interim Chair for Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Books
*1999: ''
Leonid Pasternak
Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (born ''Yitzhok-Leib'', or ''Isaak Iosifovich, Pasternak''; russian: Леони́д О́сипович Пастерна́к, 3 April 1862 ( N.S.) – 31 May 1945) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the ...
: The Russian Years (1875–1921)'', 2 vols, Oxford University Press
*2009: ''The Musical Comedy Films of
Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters'', University of Chicago Press books
** The book discusses films ''
Jolly Fellows'', ''
Circus'', ''
Volga-Volga'', and ''
Tanya
Tanya may refer to:
* Tanya (Judaism),an early work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.
* Tanya (name), a given name and list of people with the name
* Tanya or Lara Saint Paul (born 1946)
* List of Mortal Kombat characters#Tany ...
''. "Salys explores how Aleksandrov’s cinema preserved the paradigms of the American musical, including its comedic tradition, using both to inscribe the
foundation myths of the
Stalin era
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
in the
national consciousness
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."
*1999: (editor & contributor) ''
Yuri Olesha. Envy. A Critical Companion''
*2005: (editor & contributor) ''Tightrope Walking: The Memoirs of
Josephine Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...
''
*2013: (editor & contributor) ''The Russian Cinema Reader'', 2 vols.
*2015 (editor & contributor) ''The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader : 2005–2016'',
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American people of Lithuanian descent
American literary theorists
Russian studies scholars
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Harvard University alumni
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