Rachel Morley: 1 book
Performing Femininity
Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
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),...
