Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era

By (author): "Mai, Lynne Attwood"
Genres:Nonfiction books  Film books  Russia books  
Publish Date: May 1993
Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era
ISBN0044405618
ISBN139780044405610
AsinRed Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era
Original titleRed Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era
The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to decree that women were fully equal to men. At the same time, the cinema was the newest and most accessible form of popular entertainment - a powerful new tool to forge a new Soviet person and state. How did film-makers interpret their new task? Did film promote women's equality? What role did women play in the creation of new female images? What does this tradition mean for women in film today?