Women in Soviet Film

List of Figures; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Actresses, On-Screen Personas, and Their Evolution through the Years; Chapter 1: Tatiana Samoilova and the Search for a New Soviet Woman (Anthony Anemone); Chapter 2: Liudmila Gurchenko: Stardom in the Late Soviet Era (Rimgaila Salys); Chapter 3: Nina Ruslanova: Traversing the Spaces of Late Socialism (Tom Roberts); Part II. Genre as Device in Mainstream Cinema; Chapter 4: Femininity, Patriarchality, and Anti-Stalinism in Vladimir Chebotarev’s Wild Honey (Tatiana Mikhailova); Chapter 5: Melodrama’s Womanly Face: Femininity Redefined in the Soviet Cinema of the Late 1960s-early 1970s (Natalia Klimova); Chapter 6: A Laughing Matter: El’dar Ryazanov and the Subversion of Soviet Gender in Russian Comedy (Michele Leigh); Part III. New Soviet Wave Cinema and Auteurism; Chapter 7: Marlen Khutsiev’s July Rain, Cultural Liberation, and a New Soviet Woman (Tim Harte); Chapter 8: "What Can Be Done about It—I’m a Woman, not a Pet." The Non-Heroic Heroines in Romm’s Nine Days of One Year and Shepit’ko’s You and Me (Marina Rojavin); Chapter 9: Gender, Sex, and the Fantasy of the Non-Expressive in Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates (Justin Weir); Index