Professor, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program
About
Herbert J. Eagle. Associate Professor, has focused his research on Russian and East European cinema, film theory, poetry, and controversial prose written under communism. He has published articles on Sergei Eisenstein, semiotics of cinema, and the work of East European filmmakers such as Menzel, Chytilova, Wajda, Polanski, Kieslowski, Pichul, Lungin, Gabor, Gothar, and Makavejev. His books include Russian Formalist Film Theory (1981) and the volume co-edited with Anna Lawton, Words in Revolution: Russian Futurist Manifestoes, 1912-1918 (republished 2006). Among his notable articles are “Genre and Paradigm in Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"¸ in Critical Essays on Milan Kundera (1999), “Power and the Visual Semantics of Polanski’s Films” in The Cinema of Roman Polanski (2007), “Bipolar Asymmetry, Indeterminacy, and Creativity in Cinema” in Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions (2006), and “How Poetic Structure Counters Socialist Realist Narrative in Illienko’s White Bird with a Black Spot,” in Kinokultura (2009).
Affiliation(s)
- Residential College,
Dept. of Screen Arts and Cultures, CREES, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Award(s)
- Borden Prize (First in Freshman Class, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960)
University of Michigan Junior Fellow (Michigan Society of Fellows) 1970-73
Outstanding Teacher Award, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University (1975)
Amoco Outstanding Teacher Award, Purdue University (1976)
Excellence in Education Award, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan (1991)
