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Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
Performing Femininity
Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
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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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| Published | Jul 29 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350242869 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 17 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Series | KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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