Tsivian, Yuri

Yuri Tsivian was born in Latvia and received his Ph.D. from the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema in 1984. He is Professor of Art History and Cinema Studies at the University of Chicago and author of "Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1908-1919 "(1989), "Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception "(1994), and, in collaboration with Yuri Lotman, "Dialogues with the Screen" (1994).