Soviet spectatorship: observing the body in physical and visual culture

"What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorshipanswers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on screen representations from the end of...

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1. Verfasser: Goff, Samuel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Bloomsbury Academic 2024
Schriftenreihe:KINO: the Russian and Soviet cinema
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Zusammenfassung:"What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorshipanswers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on screen representations from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Second World War. Samuel Goff identifies the three fundamental ‘structures of looking’ — surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship — that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject. Close readings of understudied films such asHappy Finish(1934),The Laurels of Miss Ellen Gray(1935) andA Strict Young Man(1936), are contextualised through a theoretical analysis of the relationship between subjectivity and the body. In doing so, Goff traces the evolution of a specific Soviet 'look', examining perspectives on Soviet aesthetics and theories of body and mind, uncovering continuities within Soviet visual cultures in a period usually understood in terms of discontinuity and rupture. Soviet Spectatorship explores Soviet physical culture and its representation in cinema, painting, and photography from 1921-1939. Bringing together the study of physical and visual culture, it traces the evolution of ‘spectatorship’ as a specifically Soviet form of the ‘gaze’ that offers new perspectives on Soviet thinking on psychology, aesthetics, gender, and violence. This book reveals interwar Soviet visual culture as a realm of bodily observation and critique, uncovering continuities of theory and practice between avant-garde culture and Stalinism. Soviet Spectatorship asks: what distinguished the Soviet look? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? [...]"
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ISBN:9781350411197
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9781350411173
DOI:10.5040/9781350411197

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