Georgii Sherstnev

Georgii Sherstnev

Georgii Sherstnev is a research associate in the Department of Art History at the European University at St. Petersburg. His research focuses on early Soviet critical and public discourse about cinema, which involved the first attempts to study issues of spectatorship and the first cases of sociological inquiry into film audiences with the aim of shaping the Soviet audience and communicating with it. His research also focuses on the pragmatics of early Soviet film communication, the communicative dimension of cinema art manifestos, and the aesthetic devices used in Soviet film in the 1920s and early 1930s.