"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...
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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
Women's Cinema and the Russian and Soviet Animation Industry -- In the Beginning: The First Wave of Soviet Women Animators -- Female Creativity in the Wake of Censorship, Consolidation, and Disney -- The War Years, Stalinist Repression, and Women Navigating the Animation Industry -- Reshaping Women's Roles on and off the Screen: Animation during Khrushchev and Brezhnev -- When One Door Opens Another Shuts: Perestroika and Proto-Feminist Films -- The End of an Era: Women's Animation and the Fall of the Soviet Union -- Russian Animation: Women Navigating the Past and Looking to the Future
