Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. 1. Women’s Cinema and the Russian and Soviet Animation Industry 1
5. 2. In the Beginning: The First Wave of Soviet Women Animators 29
6. 3. Female Creativity in the Wake of Censorship, Consolidation, and Disney 53
7. 4. The War Years, Stalinist Repression, and Women Navigating the Animation Industry 76
8. 5. Reshaping Women’s Roles on and off the Screen: Animation during Khrushchev and Brezhnev 100
9. 6. When One Door Opens Another Shuts: Perestroika and Proto-Feminist Films 128
10. 7. The End of an Era: Women’s Animation and the Fall of the Soviet Union 152
11. 8. Women Navigating the Past and Looking to the Future 171
12. Filmography 194
13. Bibliography 198
14. Index 213