TY - BOOK AU - Tsopurashvili,Salome TI - From victimhood to empowerment: representing women in 1920s Soviet Georgian cinema SN - 9781501383144 AV - PN1995.9.W6 C667 2025 U1 - 791.43/652209475809042 23/eng/20250131 PY - 2025/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Women in motion pictures KW - Sex role in motion pictures KW - Social change in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Georgia (Republic) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - ხელოვნება KW - კინემატოგრაფია KW - კინოფილმები KW - ქალები კინოფილმებში KW - სქესის როლი კინოფილმებში KW - კინოფილმები, საქართველო (რესპუბლიკა), ისტორია მე-20 (მეოცე) საუკუნე KW - კინოკრიტიკა KW - Film criticism KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "From Victimhood to Empowerment brings the cinematographic works of Georgia's State Film Industry from the margins of Soviet film studies to the center, focusing on women's representations and exploring how the gender roles were modified throughout the decade according to the new social and political ideals through discourse analysis, postcolonial perspectives, and psychoanalytical feminist film theories. It surveys to what extent women's screen images were emancipated and what the functional meaning of this emancipation was its context, how the new ideals of New Soviet woman were inscribed in films, and how these ideals were combined with Georgian nationality"-- ER -