Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
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9781784531591
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9781784531591
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$205.74
Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
$205.74
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."
| Author: Rachel Morley |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publication Date: Dec 30, 2016 |
| Number of Pages: 304 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1784531596 |
| ISBN-13: 9781784531591 |
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