The New Woman in the Cinema of Transitional Historical Periods
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The New Woman in the Cinema of Transitional Historical Periods
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The great social transformations of the 20th century in Russia and Europe invariably led to a revision of established gender conventions. It was during these periods that so-called new women characters appeared in the culture, reflecting the values of the progressive part of society and hopes for even greater female emancipation. In her book Svetlana Smagina puts forward the concept that social changes are represented in cinema through such characters and analyzes in detail the images of new women in the national cinema of Scandinavian countries, Germany, France and Russia. The author demonstrates how, over time, heroines who previously did not fit into the patriarchal system of coordinates and occupied a marginal place in society, became the mouthpieces of revolutionary ideas and new feminist values. She focuses on three historical periods that fundamentally changed the development not only of Russia in the twentieth century, but also of Western countries: the revolutionary transformations that began in 1917 (including a kind of preparatory pre-revolutionary period), the change of social formation after 1991 in Russia, and the period of youth unrest of the 1960s in Europe. Svetlana Smagina is a doctor of art history, leading researcher at the Analytical Department of the Research Center for Film Education and Screen Arts of VGIK.
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