- Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film, Queen Mary University of London
Jeremy Hicks is a historian of the culture and film of post-Soviet countries at QMUL. His research interests are in documentary film in the former Soviet Union and its interactions with history, in the past and present. He has also published on Soviet film during World War Two, representations of the Holocaust in Soviet film, the documentary film pioneer, Dziga Vertov and connections between Soviet film and humanitarian film
Experience
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2017–presentProfessor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London
Education
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2000UCL, PhD
Publications
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2021Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document, and Ritual in Russia’s Contested Memory of World War II ,
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2012First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-46,
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2007Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film,
Professional Memberships
- British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
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- Location: Mile End, London
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