Representation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Post-Soviet Women’s Cinema

Abstract

This MA thesis focuses on the concepts of the mother/daughter dyad in feminist thought and on the representations of mother-daughter relationships in a specific socio-cultural space. The aim is to reveal the aspects of construction and deconstruction of motherhood and the mother-daughter relationship from a female perspective in Post-Soviet cinema. The creative work of post-Soviet movie directors Kira Muratova and Renata Litvinova is taken as an example and object of the analysis.