Performing Femininity

Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema

von Rachel Morley

306 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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."

• Reihe: Bloomsbury 3PL
• ISBN: 9781350242869
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.07.2021
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC