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Biography

Name: Maya Deren
Variant Name: Eleanora Solomonovna Derenkovsky, Eleanora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya
Birth Date: April 29, 1917
Death Date: October 13, 1961
Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States of America
Nationality: Ukrainian
Gender: Female
Occupations: movie producer, writer

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Biography of Maya Deren
1,975 words, approx. 7 pages
Maya Deren (1917--1961) wore many hats in her brief lifetime: avant-garde filmmaker, documentarian, author, and Voudoun priestess, to name a few. Her influence, especially in independent film, has not only endured but also increased in the decades...


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Maya Deren Information
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Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and...


News and Journals
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Film - Dienst
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
05/01/2003: 978 words, approx. 3 pages
35 965 In the Mirror of Maya Deren In the Mirror of Maya Deren Teils schwarz-weiÃ. Deutschland/ Schweiz/ Ãsterreich/ Frankreich 2002 Produktion: Tag/ Taum/ Ãsteneichisches Filminstitut/ Dschoint Ventschr/ Navigator/ Wiener Film Fond/ arte Produzenten: Johannes Rosenberger, Constantin Wulff, Gerd...
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The Stranger
Wonderfulness; Maya Deren Documentary Mostly Succeeds; In the Mirror of Maya Deren
08/20/2003: 406 words, approx. 1 pages
BORN IN THE YEAR of the Russian revolution (1917) to an educated Jewish family, Maya Deren moved to New York when she was five; 21 years later, she was to make what many consider to be one of the most influential American experimental films,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Lauren Rabinovitz
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In the following review, Rabinovitz discusses The Legend of Maya Deren as a biography which presents the relationship of a female artist to a male-dominated system.
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Critical Essay by Michael O'Pray
1,852 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following essay, O'Pray presents an overview of Deren's life and career and discusses the legacy of Deren's work.
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Critical Review by Deke Dusinberre
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In the following review, Dusinberre discusses the place of individual and collective identity in Deren's Ritual in Transfigured Time.
 


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