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OverviewShe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lora Mjolsness , Michele LeighPublisher: Academic Studies Press Imprint: Academic Studies Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9781644690345ISBN 10: 1644690349 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 19 November 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Women's Cinema and the Russian and Soviet Animation Industry 2. In the Beginning: The First Wave of Soviet Women Animators 3. Female Creativity in the Wake of Censorship, Consolidation, and Disney 4. The War Years, Stalinist Repression, and Women Navigating the Animation Industry 5. Reshaping Women's Roles on and off the Screen: Animation during Khrushchev and Brezhnev 6. When One Door Opens Another Shuts: Perestroika and Proto-Feminist Films 7. The End of an Era: Women's Animation and the Fall of the Soviet Union 8. Women Navigating the Past and Looking to the Future Filmography BibliographyReviewsThere is much to like in this little book, nicely produced by Academic Studies Press, with clear images and actual footnotes (worth mentioning in our era of increasing shortcuts in publishing). Leigh and Mjolness have convincingly demonstrated how little we know about the full range of Soviet female filmmakers and that Soviet animated films (and I'd add, films for children in general) offer a treasure trove of new material for a deeper understanding of Soviet society and how its values were inculcated--and sometimes subtly subverted--by women. --Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont, Women East/West There is much to like in this little book, nicely produced by Academic Studies Press, with clear images and actual footnotes (worth mentioning in our era of increasing shortcuts in publishing). Leigh and Mjolness have convincingly demonstrated how little we know about the full range of Soviet female filmmakers and that Soviet animated films (and I'd add, films for children in general) offer a treasure trove of new material for a deeper understanding of Soviet society and how its values were inculcated-and sometimes subtly subverted-by women. -Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont, Women East/West Author InformationLoraMjolsness 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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