Catherine Russell, Concordia University

Research

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Latest funding

Walter Benjamin and film studies: phantasmagoria and archive
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$35,621
Les discours des études cinématographiques : analyse de la revue cinema journal assistée par ordinateur et développement d'une base de connaissance
SSHRC · 2006 · Co-investigator
$50,000
The cinema of Naruse Mikio: women and Japanese modernity 1930-1967
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$74,400

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Walter Benjamin and film studies: phantasmagoria and archive

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Russell, Catherine J.

Keywords: film; Walter Benjamin; history; cinephilia; new media; Barbara Stanwyck; James Benning; American cultural history; American landscape; film criticism

$35,621

Les discours des études cinématographiques : analyse de la revue cinema journal assistée par ordinateur et développement d'une base de connaissance

Co-investigatorSSHRC2006Image, Text, Sounds and Technology

Principal investigators: Lefebvre, Martin

Keywords: études cinématographiques; analyse de discours assistée par ordinateur; revues savantes

$50,000

The cinema of Naruse Mikio: women and Japanese modernity 1930-1967

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Russell, Catherine J.

Keywords: film; Japan; women; modernity; Walter Benjamin; authorship; cross cultural studies

$74,400

Women and Silent Screen Congress

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Russell, Catherine J.

Keywords: silent cinema; women; historiography; feminist theory; spectatorship; cultural identity; star system; film industries; world cinema; representation

$10,000

Mikio Naruse and the Japanese woman's film

Principal investigatorSSHRC1999Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Russell, Catherine

Keywords: film; Japan; women; modernity; melodrama; ethnography; cross-cultural criticism; literature

$27,800

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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