From Victimhood to Empowerment

"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"--

Salome Tsopurashvili is Assistant Professor of Gender and Film Studies at Ilia State University, Georgia. In 2020-2021 she was a Georgian Studies fellow at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Prior to that, she was a fellow at New Europe College, Romania, in 2019-2020 and a visiting researcher at International Gender Studies centre at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, UK, in 2018.