Lora Mjolsness, Michele Leigh

She Animates

Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book showcases the accomplishments and triumphs of women in Russian animation and reveals their past contributions to not only animation, but also world cinema. Through archival research, historical analysis, and close readings of animated films this book recuperates the often-overlooked contributions women made to Russian animation over the last 100 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781644690345
• ISBN-10: 1644690349
• Artikelnr.: 58779094

Autorenporträt

Lora Mjolsness is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine and the Director of Program in Russian Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Slavic Languages and Literatures She teaches interdisciplinary courses on Russian and Soviet Cinema and on Soviet Animation.

Inhaltsangabe

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