Challenging the Canon
Women Filmmakers in Interwar Eastern Europe
Will be published approx. on 18. February 2027
Book
Hardback
256 pages
979-8-7651-6672-7 (ISBN)
Description
Challenging the Canon: Women's Voices in Interwar Central and Eastern European Film explores the contributions of "lesser known" women in the cinema industries of east-central, eastern, and south-eastern Europe, including the western USSR, not merely to "restore" them to film history but to reveal the complexity of the challenges they faced at a pivotal period in both cinematic and world history.
The two decades following World War I were tumultuous ones in European cinemas. This era of challenges affected all filmmakers, but especially pioneering women; not only the very few well-known directors like Germaine Dulac and Leni Riefenstahl, but also the women scriptwriters, editors, producers, costume and set designers, film critics, etc., whose contributions warrant research and recognition.
The women practitioners in this volume all persevered and made an impact on their industry and the field of their practice, only to "disappear" from history.
This volume is a project of reclamation of "lost" pioneers, as well as a challenge to the hierarchies of canons and pantheons that have tended to dominate cinema histories. Coupled to this aim of recovery is an intervention in ongoing debates on the marginalisation and peripherality of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as geopolitical and cultural spaces.
The two decades following World War I were tumultuous ones in European cinemas. This era of challenges affected all filmmakers, but especially pioneering women; not only the very few well-known directors like Germaine Dulac and Leni Riefenstahl, but also the women scriptwriters, editors, producers, costume and set designers, film critics, etc., whose contributions warrant research and recognition.
The women practitioners in this volume all persevered and made an impact on their industry and the field of their practice, only to "disappear" from history.
This volume is a project of reclamation of "lost" pioneers, as well as a challenge to the hierarchies of canons and pantheons that have tended to dominate cinema histories. Coupled to this aim of recovery is an intervention in ongoing debates on the marginalisation and peripherality of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as geopolitical and cultural spaces.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
34 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-6672-7 (9798765166727)
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Persons
Denise J. Youngblood is Professor Emerita of Russian, Soviet, and East European history at the University of Vermont, USA, specialising in the socio-cultural history of Russian and Soviet cinema, focusing on popular films and reception.
Gabor Gergely is Associate Professor of Film at the University of Lincoln, UK, where he works on Central and Eastern European cinema's ideological, aesthetic and technological entanglements with a globalized screen culture.
Gabor Gergely is Associate Professor of Film at the University of Lincoln, UK, where he works on Central and Eastern European cinema's ideological, aesthetic and technological entanglements with a globalized screen culture.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gabor Gergely (University of Lincoln, UK)
Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont, USA)
1. Darinka Jovanovic: Cinematic Ecriture Feminine
Nevena Dakovic (University of the Arts, Serbia)
Aleksandra Milovanovic (University of the Arts, Serbia)
2. Below the Line: Klara Kokas as Exemplary Film Practitioner in Interwar Hungarian Cinema
Gabor Gergely (University of Lincoln, UK)
3. Becoming Soviet: Ottiliia Reizman and Gender Politics in Stalinist Documentary Film
Kirill Goriachok (University of Cambridge, UK)
4. 'The Vamp in the Auditorium': Iris Skaravaiou'sFilmWritingand the Shaping of Early FilmCultureinGreece
Ana Grgic (Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania)
Antonis Lagarias (Rennes 2 University, France)
5. Searching for the Popular Avantgarde in Czech Cinema: Zet Molas as Director, Screenwriter and Actress
Sarka Jelinek Gmiterkova (Masaryk University, Czechia)
Katerina Svatonova (Charles University, Czechia)
6. The Three: Pioneering Women Directors of Ukrainian Children's Cinema
Ivan Kozlenko (University of Cambridge, UK)
7. Zhana Gendova: An (In)Visible Woman in the Male World of Bulgarian Interwar Cinema
Andronika Martonova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
8. Nina Niovilla: A Female Pioneer in Polish Cinema during the 1920s
Malgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
9. Arcadian Modernity in Nutsa Ghoghoberidze's Buba: A Repressed Woman's Perspective on the Early Soviet World
Dusan Radunovic (Durham University, UK)
Salome Tsopurashvili (Ilia State University, Georgia)
10. Invisible Frames: Gender and the Art of Strategic Compromise in Esfir Shub's Unmade Films, 1930-1939
Eva Zak (Adelphi University, USA)
Afterword
Gabor Gergely (University of Lincoln, UK)
Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont, USA)
Contributors
Index
Introduction
Gabor Gergely (University of Lincoln, UK)
Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont, USA)
1. Darinka Jovanovic: Cinematic Ecriture Feminine
Nevena Dakovic (University of the Arts, Serbia)
Aleksandra Milovanovic (University of the Arts, Serbia)
2. Below the Line: Klara Kokas as Exemplary Film Practitioner in Interwar Hungarian Cinema
Gabor Gergely (University of Lincoln, UK)
3. Becoming Soviet: Ottiliia Reizman and Gender Politics in Stalinist Documentary Film
Kirill Goriachok (University of Cambridge, UK)
4. 'The Vamp in the Auditorium': Iris Skaravaiou'sFilmWritingand the Shaping of Early FilmCultureinGreece
Ana Grgic (Babe?-Bolyai University, Romania)
Antonis Lagarias (Rennes 2 University, France)
5. Searching for the Popular Avantgarde in Czech Cinema: Zet Molas as Director, Screenwriter and Actress
Sarka Jelinek Gmiterkova (Masaryk University, Czechia)
Katerina Svatonova (Charles University, Czechia)
6. The Three: Pioneering Women Directors of Ukrainian Children's Cinema
Ivan Kozlenko (University of Cambridge, UK)
7. Zhana Gendova: An (In)Visible Woman in the Male World of Bulgarian Interwar Cinema
Andronika Martonova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
8. Nina Niovilla: A Female Pioneer in Polish Cinema during the 1920s
Malgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
9. Arcadian Modernity in Nutsa Ghoghoberidze's Buba: A Repressed Woman's Perspective on the Early Soviet World
Dusan Radunovic (Durham University, UK)
Salome Tsopurashvili (Ilia State University, Georgia)
10. Invisible Frames: Gender and the Art of Strategic Compromise in Esfir Shub's Unmade Films, 1930-1939
Eva Zak (Adelphi University, USA)
Afterword
Gabor Gergely (University of Lincoln, UK)
Denise J. Youngblood (University of Vermont, USA)
Contributors
Index