Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
- ISBN-10
- 1786730588
- ISBN-13
- 9781786730589
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-12-15
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Rachel Morley
Description
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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