{"product_id":"books-performing-femininity-by-rachel-morley","title":"Performing Femininity","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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670921634065,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781784531591_23af99c5-fdfb-4940-afde-e4a98a35c9ac.jpg?v=1781513686","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-performing-femininity-by-rachel-morley","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}