Talk:Maya Deren

message: Her original surname in the article has been changed from Derenkavskaya to Derenkowsky - but the latter seems unlikely as a masculine ending whereas -kaya is a female ending? AllyD 19:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Derenkowsky or Derenkavskaya?

message: I've split this into a subsection and flagged it. At best, I reckon this section belongs on the :Meshes of the Afternoon page rather than the biographical page, but maybe it doesn't belong at all? In tone, it reads like an essay about Deren(&Hammid)'s film, describing the action and the response which "we" are invited to have. Views anyone? AllyD (talk) 20:44, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Text (improved by another editor) now moved into page on the film itself. AllyD (talk) 15:12, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Meshes of the Afternoon" 

message: Seems there's inconsistent spelling in this article—although I realize that we shouldn't re-spell the quote from Robert Stone (whose spelling appears to be the preferred one anyway), the different spellings ought to be reconciled. No? SkepticL (talk) 01:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Voodoo? Vodou? Voudoun?

message: Divine Horsemen, although not her most talked about film, is a full-length production and an important film from an ethnological viewpoint. Should it not possibly be included in the annotated list of her cinematic achievements with a short description? Or excluded on the basis that it was only completed posthumously? Possible overlap with another section would need to be avoided.Parzivalamfortas (talk) 13:15, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cinema 

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message: Hi, I'm working on adding to Maya Deren's Wikipedia page for a class. I have a list of sources I plan to use to help me with research on Deren's life and career. Along with the sources is what I believe the sources can add to this page. 
Geller, L. Theresa. “The Personal Cinema of Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon and its Critical Reception in the History of the Avant-Garde”
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This source seeks to make connections between Deren's first and most screened film, Meshes of the Afternoon, and Deren's own role within the history of the American avant-garde to draw conclusions on themes in Deren’s filmmaking. This will provide a scholarly opinion on what makes Deren’s films “feminist” and how we can tell. 
Nichols, Bill. “Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde”. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
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This source talks about Deren’s upbringing, background in voodoo, and her influence on American Avant-Garde during the post-war era in a collection of essays.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvarne (talk • contribs) 23:43, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions Proposal 

message: Err - how does one suffer extreme malnutrition in New York in 1965? Was she anorexic? This needs explaining. 80.189.11.191 (talk) 13:46, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Extreme malnutrition” 

message: I am working on improving this wiki page for a class.
I am going to edit minor issues (such as the inconsistency listed of when Deren was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Grant). The correct year is 1946.
I propose that the order of subtopics is changed- I think that it would make more sense to put the section "Personal Life" between "Early Career" and "Film Career", as I think that the article will then read more smoothly. 
I will also add more citations- including more citations from the sources already listed in this article.
Pepinillopicante (talk) 20:34, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Changes 

message: "Ukrainian-born (then part of the Russian Empire, now independent Ukraine)"
So, then she wasn't Ukrainian-born, but Russian born, right? If there was not a independent state called Ukraine to give her citizenship, how could she be Ukrainian-born. Would you say Julius Caesar was Italian-born (then part of the Roman Republic, now Republic of Italy) or that Albert Camus was Algerian-born (then part of the French Third Republic, now independent Algeria). Well, Camus was born in Mondovi, current Dréan, then France, today Algeria. He was born French in French Algeria.
Maya was born in Kiev, part of the Russian Empire. Not in Kyiv capital of Ukraine.
Let's not let ourselves be dragged by war propaganda and used language properly. We don't need to say she was Ukrainian-born to express that she was born in a Jewish (non practicing) family that probably spoke Ukrainian as first language. JoeSatana (talk) 17:20, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ukrainian-born?