Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods

Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods
ISBN-10
1315409836
ISBN-13
9781315409832
Category
Social Science
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2017-09-22
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Marina Rojavin, Tim Harte

Description

This book illuminates and explores the representation of women in Soviet cinema from the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and into the 1970s, a period when Soviet culture shifted away, to varying degrees, from the well-established conventions of socialist realism. Covering films about working class women, rural and urban women, and women from the intelligentsia, it probes various cinematic genres and approaches to film aesthetics, while it also highlights how Soviet cinema depicted the ambiguity of emerging gender roles, pressing social issues, and evolving relationships between men and women. It thereby casts a penetrating light on society and culture in this crucial period of the Soviet Union’s development.

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