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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.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements

    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

  • Bibliography

She Animates: Gendered Soviet and Russian

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    A Paperback / softback by Lora Mjolsness, Michele Leigh

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      Publisher: Academic Studies Press
      Publication Date: 19/11/2020
      ISBN13: 9781644690666, 978-1644690666
      ISBN10: 1644690667

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements

        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

      • Bibliography

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