Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781786720580
1786720582
9781786730589
1786730588
9781784531591
1784531596
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | From Oriental dancers to ballerinas and opera singers, the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From Romashkov's Stenka Razin (1908), to Viskovsky's The Last Tango (1918), the female performer remains central. In this groundbreaking new study, 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 used this archetype of femininity to experiment and develop a unique cinematic language.
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| Other form: | Print version: Morley, Rachel. Performing femininity. London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017 9781784531591
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