Maya Iosifovna Turovskaya (; 27 October 1924 – 4 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian theatrical and film critic, film historian, screenwriter, and culturologist. She was awarded the

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in 2007 for her contribution to cinematographic sciences and criticism.

Biography

Maya Turovskaya was born in Kharkov. In 1947 she graduated from the philological faculty of

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, and in 1948 – the theater department of

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, where she was a student of Abram Efros. She became a member of the

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in 1960, and a member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers in 1966. In 1969, it was the first time since 1949 that it was recruited by a research associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. From 1973 to 2019, she worked as a leading researcher at the Institute of Theory, History of Cinema. She has been published in ''Theater'', ''

Soviet Screen ''Soviet Screen'' () was an illustrated magazine published in the USSR with varying frequency from 1925 to 1998 (with a break from 1941–1957Fifty years from the date of the first issue of Soviet Screen — 1975. — P. 18-19.) The magazine co ...

'', ''The Art of Cinema'', ''Kinovedcheskie Zapiski'', ''Moscow Observer'' and other publications. The author of the retrospective of the ''Cinema of the Totalitarian Epoch'' at the International Film Festival in Moscow in 1989. She authored a number of documentaries, including

Mikhail Romm Mikhail Ilyich Romm (; – 1 November 1971) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1950. Life and career Early life He was born in Irkutsk into a family of mixed Russian Jewish ...

's famous film '' Triumph Over Violence'' (co-authored with Romm and Khanyutin), and numerous monographs devoted to theater and cinema. She completed her doctorate in Art History in 1983. From 1992 until her death in 2019 at age 94 she lived in

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. She died on 4 March 2019.

References

External links

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Майя Туровская на сайте журнала «Сеанс»
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Майя Туровская: Россия любит силу, это компенсация всех унижений
{{DEFAULTSORT:Turovskaya, Maya 1924 births 2019 deaths Writers from Kharkiv Soviet screenwriters Soviet women screenwriters 20th-century Russian screenwriters Russian film critics Russian women film critics Russian theatre critics Russian women theatre critics Russian women screenwriters Moscow State University alumni Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni Recipients of the Nika Award Russian expatriates in Germany