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This book explores evocations of and allusions to sexual desire in Soviet cinema, 1919-1991.
List of contents
Introduction: New ventures on sexuality, nudity and body culture in Soviet cinema
Chapter 1.
The Overcoat (1926) through a gender lens: sexual desire and desire for domination
Chapter 2. The ecstatic body as image of sexual liberation: Fedor Nikitin's roles in Fridrikh Ermler's films of the late 1920s
Chapter 3. Nina Alisova's 'flirtatious movements' in Stalinist cinema
Chapter 4. Towards a history of Stalinist spectatorship: bodies on display in 1930s
fizkul'tura films
Chapter 5. From icon to flesh: The pregnant body in
The Commissar (1967) and
The Story of Asya Kliachina, Who Loved but Did Not Marry (1966)
Chapter 6. Savage youth: Documentary and desire in the cinema of Dinara Asanova
Chapter 7. Adolescence as a site of lesbian desire in Soviet cinema: The case of
DubravkaChapter 8. Nude comedians of the Thaw
Chapter 9. Sexuality and nudity in Central Asia during Soviet times: the naked female body as
surgissement in Andrei Konchalovsky's
The First TeacherChapter 10. The image as eroticised and sexualised body in Andrei Tarkovsky's films
Chapter 11. Disturbing eroticisation of (male) bodies in Sergei Parajanov's films: Mythological revelation of a moral impediment
Chapter 12. The cinematic Calyptics: Screened desire in Kira Muratova's films of the Soviet period
Chapter 13. Sexy scripts? Nadezhda Kozhushanaia's body language
Chapter 14. The naked turn in perestroika cinema
Chapter 15. Not all nudes are sexy: Psychoanalysis and Stalinist biopolitics in Vitalii Kanevskii's
Freeze - Die - Come to Life!
About the author
Birgit Beumers is Professor emerita in Film Studies at Aberystwyth U (UK) and working on a project on Central Asian cinema at Passau University in Germany.
Catherine Géry is Professor of Russian literature and cinema at INALCO (Paris), director of the Europe-Eurasia Research Centre (CREE) in France.
Eugénie Zvonkine is Professor in cinema studies at the University Paris 8, and a junior member of the French University Institute.
