As Director of the Annual Russian Film Symposium, Padunov has built Pitt's Russian film holdings into the largest collection outside of Russia.
Education & Training
- PhD, Cornell University, 1983
Courses Taught
- From Lumiere to Lenin
- Stalin at the Movies
- Cinema of Thaw and Stagnation
- Perestroika and Beyond, Soviet Literature from the Thaw to Perestroika, Formative Masterpieces of 19th Century literature
- Advanced and Fourth-year Russian
Representative Publications
“Storing and Restoring History: Gosfil’mofond and 10th Belye Stolby Film Festival.” KinoKultura 12 (April 2006)
“Lebedinaia pesnia: Pechal'naia sud'ba Pesni o Rossii Gregori Ratoffa (1944)”; translation of “Swan Song: The Sad Fate of Gregory Ratoff's Song of Russia (1944).” KinoForum 1 (2006): 45-47
“Imperial Acorn —→ National Oaks: The Eighth KinoForum.” KinoKultura 5 (July 2004)
“Stars Above Almaty: Kazakh Cinema Between 1998 and 2003.” KinoKultura 3 (Jan 2004)
“’Large Loose Baggy Monsters’: The Poetics of Excess in Contemporary Russian Culture.” Iskusstvo kino 7 (1996): 159-162
Research Interests
- History of Russo-Soviet cinema
- 19th and 20th century novel
- Narrative theory
- Cultural politics