Performing femininity : woman as performer in early Russian cinema /
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| Author / Creator: | Morley, Rachel, author. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | KINO: the Russian and Soviet cinema series KINO, the Russian and Soviet cinema series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10944623 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index. Filmography: pages 274-278. |
| ISBN: | 9781784531591 1784531596 9781786720580 9781786730589 |
