教授. Vince Bohlinger Awarded Mary Tucker Thorp College 教授essorship

RIC 教授essor and Director of Film Studies Vince Bohlinger has been awarded the 2023-2024 Mary Tucker Thorp College 教授essorship. 3月20日星期三下午4点.m. 在阿尔及尔110, he will present the Thorp lecture, titled “My Adventures with Ukrainian Cinema.在他的演讲中, Bohlinger will offer an overview of his research on Soviet and Post-Soviet film and chart his growing interest in contemporary Ukrainian cinema. 这个讲座对公众开放.

超过15年了, Bohlinger’s principal area of research has been Soviet and Post-Soviet film, yet for the past several years – in both his teaching and scholarship – he has turned his attention to the cinematic output of Ukrainian filmmakers, an interest that grew after Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022. This invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II.

在他的演讲中, Bohlinger will offer an overview of his research on Soviet and Post-Soviet film and chart his growing interest in contemporary Ukrainian cinema.

在2022年7月的《贝博esball官方网站》杂志上,，这是一本关于后苏联时代电影的在线杂志, Bohlinger参与编辑了一篇题为“关注乌克兰,” which consisted of nearly 40 reviews of films and five interviews with filmmakers. 

The following year, he co-edited another section in “KinoKultura” on “当代乌克兰纪录片,” which consisted of four filmmaker interviews and over 30 essays. 

In 2023 he taught a RIC course on Ukrainian cinema and organized a 乌克兰电影系列 at the college that included live Zoom discussions with the filmmakers.

在周五, 3月22日, Bohlinger will host internationally acclaimed author and Sundance-winning filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk from Ukraine and screen her film “The Earth is Blue as an Orange” (2020), 以及她的电影《esball官方网》(2017)的节选. 放映将在晚上7点开始.m. 在《esball官方网》中，随后与电影制作人进行了讨论.

On Saturday, March 23, a screening of Tsilyk’s newest film “Rock. 纸. 《贝博esball官方网站》(2022)将于下午4:30举行.m.，位置TBA. 

这两个活动都是免费向公众开放的.

在2023年 Q&A 有RIC新闻, Bohlinger discussed some of the Ukrainian films that have emerged since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. 以下是采访内容的转载:

教授essor Bohlinger, how are Ukrainian films reflecting on the war?

Some films directly document the crimes being committed by Russia. 例如, “拦截,纪录片, consists of secretly intercepted phone calls of Russian soldiers to their families back home. You hear a soldier telling his wife that he has stolen makeup for her along with size 38 New Balance sneakers from the home he just looted. “能拿什么就拿什么，”她说. “我们总是需要t恤.”

In another phone call a serviceman describes fellow soldiers shooting an unarmed woman dead in front of two children. “为什么不?他的妻子回答道. “她也被视为敌人.”

Other Ukrainian films are examining what it’s like to live under siege. “The Earth is Blue as an Orange” is a documentary that won the Directing Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. It’s about a single mother and her children who make a film about living life in a war zone. 这部电影有一种荒诞和甜蜜. 这是关于电影制作的魔力.

You said one of the ambitions you had for your course on Ukrainian cinema was to showcase a Ukrainian cultural identity that is distinct from Russia. 电影人是如何定义一个独立的乌克兰身份的?

Though the boundaries between Russia and Ukraine are clear, the boundaries of culture are not. In some films there’s a kind of nostalgia toward the old Soviet heritage that both Russia and Ukraine share. 例如, 在纪录片《贝博esball官方网站》中,供热厂的工人, 谁为镇上所有的家庭提供暖气, 组成合唱团. 每一天, the townspeople are on the phone yelling at the workers and accusing them of not doing their jobs because they have no heat. 但是一周一次, 工人们停下一切来排练老歌, 甚至穿着传统服装. 这是一种非常苏联式的心态. 他们还在重演过去的某一天, even when facing all the difficulties inherited from those bygone days.

As far as the Ukrainian cultural identity, I think it’s still being figured out. 我认为乌克兰的文化认同更多的是心态. Ukrainians are consciously moving toward a European and Western mindset around democracy, 自由, 自治和自决的权利. 我认为我们正在实时观察文化的形成.

The Thorp award is given each academic year to a full professor with at least six years of service at Rhode Island College who has demonstrated excellence in teaching and scholarship and/or excellence in professional and collegial service.

Committed to international education, Bohlinger is currently RIC’s Fulbright program advisor. Due to his mentorship of student applicants, RIC has had a Fulbright winner for three years in a row. Bohlinger也是亚洲学生协会的联合顾问.

目前, he is working on a book titled “Toward a Second Utopia: Soviet Film Style between Montage and Socialist Realism, 1928-1936.“这个项目考察了内容的变化, look and sound of Soviet films during the early years of Stalin.