Ana Hedberg Olenina

Book

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film (Oxford University Press, 2020).

              Winner, Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize by the Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies, "for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in English in the United States in 2021."

            Winner, Best First Book Prize by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). 

Edited Journal Issue

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, ed. The Ukrainian Film Forum: Interviews and Essays. Special issue of The Slavic and East European Journal  [accepted; forthcoming Fall 2024]

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, and Irina Schulzki, eds. Mise en geste: Studies of Gesture in Cinema. Special issue of Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 5 (2017). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17892/app.2017.0005.100

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Olenina Ana Hedberg, “A Quest for the Public Sphere: Ukrainian Documentary Cinema and Material Cultures of Solidarity,” The Slavic and East European Journal [accepted; forthcoming Fall 2024]

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, "Sergei Eisenstein, Neurocinematics, and Embodied Cognition: a Reassessment," Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 43.3 (2021): 351-382.

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, “The Junctures of Children’s Psychology and Soviet Avant-garde Film: Representations, Influences, Applications,” The Brill Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film, ed. Olga Voronina, Leiden: Brill Press, 2019, 73-99.

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, Eric L. Amazeen, Bonnie Eckard, and Jason Papenfuss. “Embodied Cognition in Performance: the Impact of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Exercises on Affect and Height Perception,” Frontiers in Psychology, October 2019. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02277

Olenina, Ana, “Moto-bio-cine-event: Constructions of Expressive Movement in Soviet Film Avant-garde,” The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, ed. Douglas Rosenberg, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 79-104.

Olenina, Ana, “The Doubly Wired Spectator: Psychophysiological Research on Cinematic Pleasure in the 1920s.” Film History: An International Journal, 27.1 (2015): 29-57.

Olenina, Ana, “Engineering Performance: Lev Kuleshov, Soviet Reflexology, and Labor Efficiency Studies,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 35.3 (2013): 297-336.

Editor-reviewed Articles and Chapters

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, “Resonant Space: The Experiential Media Environments of Leon Theremin,” The Oxford Handbook of Atmospheres and Felt Environments in the Moving Image, eds. Steffen Hven and Daniel Yacavone. New York: Oxford University Press -- [accepted] 

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, “Poetry as Movement: Sofia Vysheslavtseva’s Verse Theory Between Formalism and the Revolutionary Stage” [“Poeziia kak dvizhenie: teoria stikha S. Vysheslavtsevoi mezhdu formalizmom i revoliutsionnoi estradoi”], Oral Performance of Literature, 1923-1929 [Zvuchashshaia Khudozhestvennaia Rech’, 1923-1929], ed. Witalij Schmidt and Valerii Zolotukhin, Moscow: Tri Kvadrata, 2018, 459-489.

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, and Irina Schulzki. Editorial article: “Mediating Gesture in Theory and Practice”. Mise en geste. Studies of Gesture in Cinema (ed. by Ana Hedberg Olenina and Irina Schulzki). Special issue of Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 5 (2017).

Olenina, Ana, “Embodying the Literary Form: Approaches to the Corporeal Aspects of Poetry in the Works of Russian Formalists at the Institute of the Live Word and Beyond, Zhivoe slovo: logos – golos –dvizhenie - zhest [The Living Word: Logos - Voice – Movement - Gesture], ed. Vladimir Feshchenko, Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2015, 456-480.

Olenina, Ana, “Scores of Movement: However Odd, on the Psychology of Acting in Lev Kuleshov’s Workshop” [“Partitury dvizhenia: kak ni stranno, o psikhologii naturshchika u Kuleshova”], Kinovedcheskie zapiski 97 (2011): 20-50.

Olenina, Ana, “Optical Distortions in Eisenstein’s Strike: A Metaphor for New Vision.” Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Film and History League Conference Nov. 8-12, 2006. Ed. Peter Rollins. CD-ROM. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Film and History Society, 2007.

Encyclopedia Entry

Olenina, Ana, "Aleksandra Khokhlova." Women Film Pioneers Project, ed. Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, New York: Columbia University Libraries, 2013. Web. https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/aleksandra-khokhlova-2/

Curatorial Projects

Olenina, Ana Hedberg. “Foreword. The Sculptor of Inner Forms: the Poet Dmitrii Ol’shanskii” [“Predislovie. Vaiatel’ vnutrennikh form: poet Dmitrii Ol’shanskii”]. Dmitrii Ol’shanskii. Ab”iakty. Moscow: Russkii Gulliver, 2018, 1-2.

Olenina, Ana and Maxim Pozdorovkin. Brochure essay “Montage Uprising” about Soviet avant-garde filmmakers Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Barnet, Vertov, Shub, Turin, and Kalatozov). Early Landmarks of Soviet Cinema (4 DVD box-set). Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, 2011.

                          The National Society of Film Critics’ 2011 Award in the nomination “Film Heritage.”

Olenina, Ana and Maxim Pozdorovkin. Brochure essay “Miss Mend and Soviet Americanism” and a 22 min. documentary featurette “Miss Mend: A Whirlwind Vision of an Imagined America.” Miss Mend (DVD). Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, 2009.

Op-ed

Olenina, Ana, Hedberg, “A Case for Neurohumanities,” In the Moment, an online blog of the journal Critical Inquiry, September 2017, https://critinq.wordpress.com/2017/09/I   

Interview

Olenina, Ana, Interview with Ekaterina Khokhlova, granddaughter and curator of Lev Kuleshov. ARTMargins: Central and Eastern European Visual Culture. 2008. https://artmargins.com/lev-kuleshov/ 

           Reprinted in French and Russian translation by Kinoglaz: Soviet and Russian Cinema , www.kinoglaz.fr/ekaterina_khokhlova_2008.php 

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, Interview with Oksana Karpovych, Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina. The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina. The Slavic and East European Journal [accepted].

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, Interview with Nadia Parfan, Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina. The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina. The Slavic and East European Journal [accepted].

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, Interview with Oleksiy Radynskyi, Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina.  The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina. The Slavic and East European Journal [accepted].

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, Interview with Oleksandr Teliuk, Head of the Archive Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Center, Ukraine. The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina. The Slavic and East European Journal 

Olenina, Ana Hedberg, Interview with Dina Iordanova, scholar of Eastern European Cinema.” The Ukrainian Film Forum, guest edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina. The Slavic and East European Journal [accepted].