Faculty | Joshua S. Malitsky

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture

Email: jmalitsk@indiana.edu
Phone: 856-0405
Office: 217

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2005

Background

Professor Malitsky's teaching and research interests include documentary history, theory, and criticism; non-fiction film and nation-building; intersections between documentary, ethnographic film, and the avant-garde; early Soviet cinema; Cuban cinema; West African cinema; realism; and sports media. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Post-Revolution Non-Fiction Film: Building the Soviet, Yugoslav, and Cuban Nations. Professor Malitsky is affiliated faculty with the Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI) and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).

Publication Highlights

Editor, “Special Issue on Science and Documentary,” Journal of Visual Culture. Forthcoming
“Science and Documentary: Unity, Indexicality, Reality,” Journal of Visual Culture. Forthcoming
“Ideologies in Fact: Still and Moving-Image Documentary in the Soviet Union, 1927-1932.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, forthcoming October 2010.
“A Certain Explicitness: Objectivity, History, and the Documentary Self,” Cinema Journal 50.3 (2010).
“Actor-Network Theory and Documentary Studies,” Studies in Documentary Film 4.1 (2010):65-78.
“The Relationship between Newsreels and Documentary Film,” The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, ed. Ian Aitken, London: Routledge, 2005.
“The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty,” The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, ed. Ian Aitken, London: Routledge, 2005.
“Esfir Shub and the Film Factory-Archive: Soviet Documentary from 1925-1928.” Screening the Past. Vol. 17 (2004). December 2004. <http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/.>