Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema

Russia's Eternal Quest for Messianism

Mozhgan Samadi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

237 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8913-1 (ISBN)

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The key question asked in this book is, how did Stalinist war cinema present Soviet women's resistance against the Nazi forces during World War II? This book challenges those scholarly works which support the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. Despite the Soviet regime's claim of being opposed to any religious heritage, this book reveals how Stalinist cinema drew on Russian religious tradition and culture in the creation of cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII. Further, the book shows how the adoption of Russian cultural and religious heritage in Soviet war cinema served Stalinist collective identity-construction policies and state-citizen relations. In so doing, this study contributes to a range of fields within Russian and Soviet studies, including gender studies, cinema studies, Soviet modernity, and the study of identity-construction and state-nation relations. Whilst this book is aimed at researchers and academics, it provides a supplementary source for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Soviet/Russian studies.

Mozhgan Samadi received her PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. Having worked at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester, she is now Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Russia. Dr Samadi's research interests include topics related to state-nation relations, women's studies, religious studies, and cinema studies in Russia and the Middle East, particularly Iran. She has also authored several literary translations from Russian into Persian, published in the UK and Iran.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5275-8913-7 / 1527589137
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8913-1 / 9781527589131
Zustand	Neuware