From Victimhood to Empowerment : Representing Women in 1920s Soviet Georgian Cinema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cʻopʻurašvili, Salome, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

From Victimhood to Empowerment: Representing Women in 1920s Soviet Georgian Cinema brings the cinematographic works of Georgia's State Film Industry from the margins of the Soviet film studies to the centre.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Notes

on Translation and Transliteration

List

of

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Class and Symbolic Meaning of Female Bodies

2. At the Intersection of Class and

Ethnicity

3. Representing the 'East': Oriental

Victim/Murderess

4. Transformation of the 'East'

5. Meet the New Soviet Woman: Incompatibility of Femininity and Agency

6. Monstrous Femininity of

the NEPwomen

7. Reimagining Revolution as an Oedipal Drama: Transformation of the Mother Figure in the 1920s Revolutionary Films

Conclusion

Selected Filmography

Bibliography

Index

ISBN:

1-5013-8313-2

1-5013-8315-9

OCLC:

1493077702