New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema

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Manchester University Press, 2003 - Performing Arts - 207 pages
Cinema has long been recognised as the privileged bridge between Soviet ideologues & their mass public. Recent feminist-oriented work has drawn out the symbolic role of women in Soviet culture, but men too were expected to play their part. This is a study of masculinity in Stalinist Soviet cinema.
 

Contents

Cultural revolution or the masculinisation of culture
30
the musical comedies of Grigorii
68
men in labour in the collective farm
115
the changing face of the Soviet soldier
154
Conclusions
181
Index
201
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John Haynes is Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of History at the University of Essex

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