The schedule for this year’s University of Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium, called "The New Positive Hero: Masculinity and Genre in Recent Russian Cinema", is now available. It will run from Monday, May 4 through Saturday, May 9. Read an excerpt by clicking on more.

On this occasion I would especially like to mention the recently published new book by Nancy Condee, who will be one of the symposium’s participants, entitled “The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema” (Oxford University Press US, 2009).