She Animates

LoraMjolsness is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine and theDirector of Program in Russian Studies. She received her Ph.D. from theUniversity of Southern California in Slavic Languages and Literatures Sheteaches interdisciplinary courses on Russian and Soviet Cinema and on SovietAnimation.Michele Leigh receivedher PhD in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at USC in 2008.She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema andPhotography at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her research interestsinclude silent cinema, Russian and Eastern European Cinema, and femaleindustrial practice.

• Acknowledgements1. Women’s Cinema and the Russian and Soviet Animation Industry2. In the Beginning: The First Wave of Soviet Women Animators3. Female Creativity in the Wake of Censorship, Consolidation, and Disney4. The War Years, Stalinist Repression, and Women Navigating the Animation Industry5. Reshaping Women’s Roles on and off the Screen: Animation during Khrushchev and Brezhnev6. When One Door Opens Another Shuts: Perestroika and Proto-Feminist Films7. The End of an Era: Women’s Animation and the Fall of the Soviet Union8. Women Navigating the Past and Looking to the FutureFilmographyBibliography

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