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Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema

Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema

Morley, Rachel
Beumers, Birgit

Hardcover

Series: Kino - The Russian and Soviet Cinema

Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1784531596
ISBN13: 9781784531591
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Dec 30 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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