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Overview"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.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Morley (University College London, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9781350242869ISBN 10: 1350242861 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 29 July 2021 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsMeticulously researched, elegantly written, and bristling with fascinating insights into pre-revolutionary Russian cinema and Russian women's history, Rachel Morley's excellent book joins the many seminal studies from I.B. Tauris's authoritative Kino series ... Offers useful insights for scholars and students investigating Russian cultural history, film, and gender studies. * Slavic Review * Author InformationDr Rachel Morley is Lecturer in Russian Cinema and Culture at University College London. She has published widely and presented papers on Russian film. From 1999 to 2009 she taught in the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University of London, and she has also taught modules in Russian film at the University of Cambridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |