Performing Femininity - Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema

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."

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Rachel Morley, Morley Rachel
• Edition: Tauris, I.B.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 18.12.2016
• EAN: 9781784531591
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-159-1
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Thème: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Théâtre, ballet; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Films, cinema, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General