Teo Khatiashvili

Direction:Film Studies
Position:Full Professor

In 1990 graduated from Tbilisi State University, specialty of History and Theory of Art. In 1997 defended her candidate dissertation on “Mythological-Metaphorical World of Sergei Parajanov”.

Associate professor of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Cinema University in 1998-2014 and Ilia State University since 2014. In different years she taught the history of cinema in training-television centre, Grigol Robakidze State University, in the department of theory and history of art in Tbilisi State University.

Since 1990 co-operates with various print media. In 2006-2010 hosted the show “Good Evening, Babylon” on I Radio of Public Broadcasting. In 2007-2014 was the editor of the TV-show “Red Zone” (the joint project of Radio Freedom and Public Broadcasting). She is interested in researching gender aspects in cinema. In 1999-2001 she was the head of RSS group scientific-study project “Woman and Man in Cinema: Gender Stereotypes and their transformation”. In 2002-2004 was the member of women’s program board of “Open Society – Georgia” and in 2004 -2006 the member of the scenario committee of National Cinema Center of Ceorgia.

She is the member of cinematographers’ union.

Scientific interests / research interests

Tendencies of modern cinema, gender aspects in cinema, the study of historic and modern processes of Georgian cinema in political-cultural context

Featured publications

Adoration of Magi by Albert Serra, materials of the conference of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Cinema University, 2018.
Gender Trouble - do the gender representations change in modern Georgian cinema? 2017 http://www.gnfc.ge/geo/25years-in/21
In the name of God and Father, 2017 http://www.gnfc.ge/geo/25years-in/5
The Graveyard of Dreams on the both sides of the shore, 2017 http://www.gnfc.ge/geo/25years-in/41
Parajanov's kitch - repetition of the traditional, as innovation, materials of the conference of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Cinema University, 2017
Who is afraid of femme fatale. Digest of articles "Who is afraid of Feminism in Georgia", Heinrich Boll Stiftung, 2013
Cinema chronicles of XX century (person and personal freedom). Digest of articles "Georgian Democracy: Myth or Reality", 2011
TV Series, as socio-cultural phenomena and characteristics of Georgian TV series. "Art Science Studies." N1 (34), 2008
Woman and Man in Cinema: Gender Stereotypes and their modifications. Gender. Culture. Modernity. Part I, 2005

Books

Teo Khatiashvili. "Mythological-Metaphorical World of Sergei Parajanov", publishing house "Kentavri", Tbilisi 2014

Teo Khatiashvili. "New Waves" in 50-60-s Western Cinema", Ilia State University Publishing, 2015

Articles in magazines

Family portrait in exterior or Putin's loveless Russia, Journal "Indigo", 2017
The woman who left, "Indigo", 2017
"Where magical fishes don't see dreams any more", "Indigo", 2017

An extensive list of publications

An extensive list of publications
Parajanov - Kind Storyteller, "Georgia Cinema Directors", part I, 2005
The eclectic value of unstable epoch: reanimation of traditional values and new images. Shota Rustaveli Cinema and Theatre University’s Conference materials, 2006.
looking for Pleasure - Genre and his structuring with “feminine” and “masculine” archetypes “Kino”, 2007/6
Unreachable Object of Desire. Lacanian interpretations of Louis Bunuel's work. Journal "Art Science Studies." N4 (37), 2009
Influence of Modernist Movements In Georgian Film of the 1920’s. Shota Rustaveli Cinema and Theatre University’s Conference materials, 2011
All (and Nothing) about Almodovar, 2011 http://lib.ge/body_text.php?10355
Soviet mythic realism (Film of Aleksandr Medvedkin). Shota Rustaveli Cinema and Theatre University’s Conference materials, 2012
Freak as an expression of the idea of personal freedom. Shota Rustaveli Cinema and Theatre University’s Conference materials, 2013
Leni Riefenstahl- Aesthetic of Nazism. Shota Rustaveli Cinema and Theatre University’s Conference materials, 2014
Gender Trouble - Observations on recent Georgian Cinema. Shota Rustaveli Cinema and Theatre University’s Conference materials, 2015
Chantal Akerman’s “Art of Nothing” , Shota Rustaveli Cinema and Theatre University’s Conference materials, 2016

Current Courses

Modern Cinematography; History of World Film 2 - World Cinematography of 40s-60s; Gender Stereotypes and Modifications in Movies; Research of Modern World Cinema Problems and Tendencies
Critical Writing; "New Waves" in the Film of the 50s and 60s; Critical Writing

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