She Animates: Gendered Soviet and Russian Animation (Film and Media Studies)

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. "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"-- Provided by publisher

This book showcases theaccomplishments and triumphs of women in Russian animation and reveals theirpast contributions to not only animation, but also world cinema. Througharchival research, historical analysis, and close readings of animated filmsthis book recuperates the often-overlooked contributions women made to Russiananimation over the last 100 years.