eBook - ePub

Soviet Spectatorship

Name: Soviet Spectatorship
ISBN: 9781350411173

Observing the Body in Physical and Visual Culture

Samuel Goff,

264 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Soviet Spectatorship

Observing the Body in Physical and Visual Culture

Samuel Goff,

About this book

What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorship answers 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 as Happy Finish (1934), The Laurels of Miss Ellen Gray (1935) and A 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.

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