9780367889715-0367889714-Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

ISBN-13: 9780367889715
ISBN-10: 0367889714
Edition: 1
Author: Tim Harte, Marina Rojavin
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 216 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780367889715
ISBN-10: 0367889714
Edition: 1
Author: Tim Harte, Marina Rojavin
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 216 pages

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Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) (ISBN-13: 9780367889715 and ISBN-10: 0367889714), written by authors Tim Harte, Marina Rojavin, was published by Routledge in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Human Geography (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Human Geography books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Product 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. Review ‘Critics and viewers typically perceive the cinema of the late Soviet period as dominated by male stars, male directors, and the male gaze. Women in Soviet Film complicates this perspective by revealing the "womanly face" of Thaw and Stagnation cinema. Defying expectations, a gendered critique of Soviet (and especially late Soviet) patriarchality in the cinema of the 1960-70s appears to be more profound and more disquieting than in the following, much more liberal times. Most paradoxically, as the volume’s authors eloquently demonstrate, this deconstruction was performed from within popular cinematic genres, in mainstream films and by beloved stars. This hidden streak of gendered subversion within mainstream Soviet cinema, is a true discovery superbly presented by this collection of articles.’ - Mark Lipovetsky, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder About the Author Marina Rojavin is teaching at Bryn Mawr College. Some of her scholarly interests are Russian intellectuals in Imperial Russia and Russian intelligentsia, women, and character archetypes in Soviet cinema of 1960s–1980s. Her most recent publication is the textbook Russian for Advanced Students (2013) completed with her colleagues. Tim Harte is an associate professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College. He is author of Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910–1930 (2009) as well as various articles on twentieth-century Russian literature and film.

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