Daniel Schwartz
Associate Professor
Daniel Schwartz is an assistant professor in Russian and German Cinemas at 91社区. 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 91社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press (2024). In it, he explores the unheard sonic dimensions of ostensibly 鈥渟ilent鈥� 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茅al: 91社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2024.
Articles
鈥淪avage Youth: Documentary and Desire in the Cinema of Dinara Asanova,鈥� in Sexuality, Nudity, and the Body in Soviet Cinema, edited by Birgit Beumers, Catherine G茅ry, Eug茅nie Zvonkine (in production).
鈥淒id I Hear Right? Resounding Archival Images in the Films of Sergei Loznitsa鈥� Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema, edited by Yuri Leving (in production).
鈥淎s (Un)Seen from Space: Soviet Collapse and the Unwatchable in Andrei Ujic膬's Out of the Present.鈥� JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, 2 (2024): 76-95. DOI: .
鈥淎bsurd Justice: Documenting the Show Trial in Sergei Loznitsa鈥檚 The Trial (2018),鈥� Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 17, 2 (2023): 94-112. DOI: 10.1080/17503132.2023.2202071
鈥淒ocumentary Without Borders: Salome虂 Lamas鈥檚 Extinction and the Orientalism of Post-Soviet Borders and Space,鈥� Studies in Eastern European Cinema 12, 3 (2021): 237-259. DOI: 10.1080/2040350X.2020.1822586
鈥淏etween Sound and Silence: The Failure of the 鈥楽ymphony of Sirens鈥� in Baku (1922) and Moscow (1923)鈥� Slavic Review 79, 1 (Spring 2020): 51-75.
鈥淪ounding the Inaudible: Rethinking the Musical Analogy in the City Symphonies of Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov,鈥� Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 12, 1 (Spring 2018): 1-31.