{"product_id":"9781786720580","title":"Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema","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":"I.B.Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150053982448,"sku":"9781786720580","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786720580_p0.jpg?v=1763730487","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786720580","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}