Red women on the silver screen
Subtitle: Soviet women and cinema from the beginning to the end of the Communist era
By: Lynne Attwood with Maya Turovskaya ... [et al.] ; translations by Lynne Attwood and Kirsten Sams.
Contributors: Turovskaı͡a︡, Maiı͡a︡ Iosifovna.
Publisher: Pandora
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Women in the motion picture industry -- Soviet Union; Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History
Description: The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to declare women equal to men. At the same time, cinema was emerging as the newest and most accessible form of popular entertainment, and as a powerful tool in propagandizing the Party line. This book looks at the interaction between these two phenomena: at the extent to which women's new status and roles were reflected and promoted on Soviet screens throughout the country's history.

Part I, written by Lynne Attwood, provides an essential framework for readers unfamiliar with Soviet studies. It offers a lucid and lively account of the milestones in Soviet history, the importance of film within this history and the changing images and experiences of Soviet women within both cinema and society. In Parts II and III, women from the former Soviet Union - film critics, directors, camera-operators and script-writers - relate their own experiences in the film industry, and their responses to the images of women portrayed on screen. This crisply-written book, illustrated with evocative photographs from Soviet films, will provide readers with a real insight into the relationship between women and film in the Soviet Union.
Notes: "Filmography": p. [257]-260.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-264) and index.