Daniel Schwartz
Associate Professor
Daniel Schwartz is an assistant professor in Russian and German Cinemas at 91˿Ƶ. His research focuses on the intersection of sound studies, Russian and German cinema, urban studies, and documentary film. His book City Symphonies: Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913-1931 has been published with 91˿Ƶ-Queen’s University Press (2024). In it, he explores the unheard sonic dimensions of ostensibly “silent” city symphony films by drawing attention to city-symphonic experiments outside the cinema, particularly those in music, mass spectacle, and radio. His articles may be found in Cinema Journal; Slavic Review; Studies in Eastern-European Cinema; Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema; and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.
Selected Publications:
Book
City Symphonies: Sound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913-1931. Montréal: 91˿Ƶ-Queen’s University Press, 2024.
Articles
“Savage Youth: Documentary and Desire in the Cinema of Dinara Asanova,” in Sexuality, Nudity, and the Body in Soviet Cinema, edited by Birgit Beumers, Catherine Géry, Eugénie Zvonkine (in production).
“Did I Hear Right? Resounding Archival Images in the Films of Sergei Loznitsa” Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema, edited by Yuri Leving (in production).
“As (Un)Seen from Space: Soviet Collapse and the Unwatchable in Andrei Ujică's Out of the Present.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, 2 (2024): 76-95. DOI: .
“Absurd Justice: Documenting the Show Trial in Sergei Loznitsa’s The Trial (2018),” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 17, 2 (2023): 94-112. DOI: 10.1080/17503132.2023.2202071
“Documentary Without Borders: Salomé Lamas’s Extinction and the Orientalism of Post-Soviet Borders and Space,” Studies in Eastern European Cinema 12, 3 (2021): 237-259. DOI: 10.1080/2040350X.2020.1822586
“Between Sound and Silence: The Failure of the ‘Symphony of Sirens’ in Baku (1922) and Moscow (1923)” Slavic Review 79, 1 (Spring 2020): 51-75.
“Sounding the Inaudible: Rethinking the Musical Analogy in the City Symphonies of Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov,” Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 12, 1 (Spring 2018): 1-31.