Karetnikova, Inga

Inga Karetnikova is a writer, film historian, and critic who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was educated at Moscow University and at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. She is a former Guggenheim, Carnegie-Mellon, and Radcliffe Institute fellow, and the author of numerous books, among them Mexico According to Eisenstein and How Scripts Are Made. She has taught various courses on film in this country and in Austria, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland and has written scripts for the BBC in London.