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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.
List 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
