Open AccessEcofeminism in Film Adaptations of Lesia Ukrainka’s Forest Song
Author(s) -
Anastassiya Andrianova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kyiv-mohyla humanities journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2313-4895
DOI - 10.18523/kmhj249180.2021-8.46-67
Subject(s) - drama , depiction , ukrainian , ecofeminism , ideology , deforestation (computer science) , ecocriticism , history , consciousness , ethnology , sociology , geography , literature , art , political science , environmental ethics , philosophy , law , linguistics , epistemology , politics , computer science , programming language
This article off ers a pioneering ecofeminist study of Viktor Ivchenko’s Lisova pisnia (1961) and Yurii Illienko’s Lisova pisnia. Mavka (1980), two Soviet Ukrainian film adaptations of Lesia Ukrainka’s eponymous fairy-drama (1911; Forest Song). It focuses on the interrelated depiction of gender and nature along with the drama’s ideological and material aspects: androcentrism and deforestation. The production of both fi lms coincides with, and arguably refl ects, what Marko Pavlyshyn describes as “the emergence of a conservationist consciousness” in the USSR in the 1960s. The article’s goal is therefore twofold – to bring new ecofeminist insights into Ukrainian fi lm studies and to raise eco-awareness about the Volyn Polissia, which provides the setting for Ukrainka’s drama and its adaptations, and currently faces environmental devastation from illegal amber mining.