eprintid: 10139207 rev_number: 23 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/13/92/07 datestamp: 2021-11-26 15:51:54 lastmod: 2021-11-30 18:11:18 status_changed: 2021-11-30 18:11:18 type: book metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Morley, R title: Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: D92 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: 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." date: 2016-12-18 date_type: published publisher: Bloomsbury official_url: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/performing-femininity-9781784531591/ oa_status: green full_text_type: other book_type: book language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 901730 isbn_13: 9781784531591 lyricists_name: Morley, Rachel lyricists_id: RMORL89 actors_name: Barczynska, Patrycja actors_id: PBARC91 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public place_of_pub: London, UK pages: 304 edition: 1st citation: Morley, R; (2016) Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema. [Book]. (1st ed.). Bloomsbury: London, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10139207/1/Morley_Performing%20Femininity_Chapter%203%20and%20notes.pdf