Daniela Maria Amodio, M.A.

Daniela Maria Amodio, M.A.

Johannisstr. 1, room 201
48143 Münster

T: +49 251 83-23544

 

  • Research Foci

    • Slavic Literatures and Cultures in Comparative Perspective: Polish and Russian Studies (19th-21st Century)
    • Eastern European film history: Soviet, Russian and Polish film
    • Icons in early Russian and Soviet film

  • Doctoral AbstractThesis

    [working title] Transformation Processes of the Icon Tradition in Soviet Film

    Supervisor
    Prof. Dr. Irina Wutsdorff
    Doctoral Subject
    Slavistik
    Targeted Doctoral Degree
    Dr. phil.
    Awarded by
    Department 09 – Philologies

    In my dissertation, I examine the extent to which Soviet films from the 1920s to 1940s take up formal, narrative and aesthetic strategies of the Russian Orthodox icon tradition - especially in the staging of the Soviet hero. The starting point is the assumption that the icon not only serves as a visual reference, but is also politically functionalised in a secularised form: Elements such as the votive image structure or depictions of saints are transferred into the visual language of the film and placed in the service of a communist promise of salvation.

  • CV

    Academic Education

    Slavic Studies, M.A. specialising in Polish and Russian literature, culture and film studies (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
    Slavic Studies and Philosophy, B.A. (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)

    Positions

    Student assistant, from 04/2017 research assistant at the Slavic Department of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen with Prof Dr Schamma Schahadat
    Intern, from 02/2019 working student at the City Museum of Tübingen