VIKTORIA PARANYUK

I am a film scholar, freelance programer, and video

essayist, specializing in the cinemas and visual cultures

of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. 

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My book, Cinema of Sincerity: Soviet Films and Culture

(U of Wisconsin Press, 2025), explores what I call

sincerity aesthetics and informal circulation of ideas

in the cinemas of the post-Stalin years.

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My current research focuses on the junction of history,

historical violence, embodiment, and autobiography

in the work of women filmmakers from socialist Europe.

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My research has been published in Film History,

[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film &

Moving Image Studies, ASAP/Review, Slavic Review, 

Tecmerin, and in edited collections, such as

ReFocus: The Films of Larisa Shepitko.