Performing Femininity : Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema EPUB
by Rachel Morley
Part of the KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema series
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Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia.
From the first feature film, Romashkov's Stenka Razin (1908), through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s, to Viskovsky's The Last Tango (1918), made shortly before the pre-Revolutionary film industry was dismantled by the new Soviet government, the female performer remains central.
In this groundbreaking new study, Rachel Morley argues that early Russian film-makers used the character of the female performer to explore key contemporary concerns from changing conceptions of femininity and the emergence of the so-called New Woman, to broader questions concerning gender identity.
Morley also reveals that the film-makers repeatedly used this archetype of femininity to experiment with cinematic technology and develop a specific cinematic language."
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- Pages:304 pages, 17 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/12/2016
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- ISBN:9781786720580
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:304 pages, 17 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/12/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786720580
