John MacKay

John MacKay is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures and at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He completed a BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 1987, and a PhD in Comparative Literature at Yale in 1998. He teaches a wide variety of courses on literature, Russian culture, cultural theory, and film and moving image media. His current research interests include documentary and experimental film, early Soviet culture and its later reception, Marxist theory, the comparative and cross-linguistic study of film and media concepts, and the comparative study of the short story form. (2024)

Publications

• Inscription and Modernity: From Wordsworth to Mandelstam, Indiana University Press, 2006. [1]

• True Songs of Freedom: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Russian Culture and Society, University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. [2]

• Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921), Academic Studies Press, 2018, xcvi+372 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Morley (SEER), Belodubrovskaya (New Rev Film & TV Stud), Williams (Filmint), Liebman (Cineaste). [3]

See also

• Dziga Vertov

Links

• Profile on Yale
• Academia.edu
• Rhythm Machines: John MacKay on Dziga Vertov, 2010.