She Animates

Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation

AvLora Mjolsness,Michele Leigh

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by film scholars and historians. Our approach examines these directors within history, culture, and industrial practice in animation. In addition to making a case for including these women and their work in the annals of film and animation history, this volume also makes an argument for why their work should be considered part of the tradition of women’s cinema. We offer textual analysis that focuses on the changing attitudes towards both the woman question and feminism by examining the films in light of the emergence and evolution of a Soviet female subjectivity that still informs women’s cinema in Russia today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-19
Mått:155 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:352 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Film and Media Studies
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781644690666

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

LoraMjolsness is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine and theDirector of Program in Russian Studies. She received her Ph.D. from theUniversity of Southern California in Slavic Languages and Literatures Sheteaches interdisciplinary courses on Russian and Soviet Cinema and on SovietAnimation.Michele Leigh receivedher PhD in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at USC in 2008.She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema andPhotography at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her research interestsinclude silent cinema, Russian and Eastern European Cinema, and femaleindustrial practice.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements1. Women’s Cinema and the Russian and Soviet Animation Industry2. In the Beginning: The First Wave of Soviet Women Animators3. Female Creativity in the Wake of Censorship, Consolidation, and Disney4. The War Years, Stalinist Repression, and Women Navigating the Animation Industry5. Reshaping Women’s Roles on and off the Screen: Animation during Khrushchev and Brezhnev6. When One Door Opens Another Shuts: Perestroika and Proto-Feminist Films7. The End of an Era: Women’s Animation and the Fall of the Soviet Union8. Women Navigating the Past and Looking to the FutureFilmographyBibliography