As we approach the centennial of the October revolution, the international and multilingual online journal La Furia Umana is publishing a special dossier looking at Russian media creation in the period between 1912 (the year of A Slap in the Face of Public Taste) and 1930 (the year of Mayakovsky's suicide), with a concentration on the Russian avant-garde in film and the plastic arts. Topics for this dossier might include but are not limited to: - overviews of the central themes in artistic and media production - articles in which there is a connection between different media in Russia - texts that focus on a single medium, but foregrounding the avant-gardes around this media - the direct and long-term effects of the revolution on film and the arts - texts dedicated to filmmakers, artists and critics at the forefront of experimental media production. - the avant-garde in the political field - the avant-garde in the domain of criticism - iterations of this epoch in later work (Groupes Medvedkine, Groupe Dziga Vertov, etc.) Please send abstracts to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by January 15, 2016. Final papers by March 10, 2016. Word count min between 1000-3000 words. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html