Author Tatiana Efremova

Tatiana Efremova

Tatiana Efremova is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at New York University with a secondary field in Cinema Studies. She works on Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian literature, film, media, and visual culture. Her first publication,” ‘It was totally worth it’: Patriotic Consumption in the Queue to Serov’s Exhibit,” appeared in a special issue of Digital Icons in the spring of 2016.

2006: Blockade (Sergei Loznitsa)

Tatiana Efremova

December 2017

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

Speechless but not Silent: Blockade (Sergei Loznitsa, 2006) Is it possible to tell the story of a besieged city without the trace of an epic? Can one capture the state of emergency without melodramatic excess?...