Sexuality, Nudity and the Body in Soviet Cinema
This book explores evocations of and allusions to sexual desire in Soviet cinema, 1919–1991.
By deploying several lines of investigation – from the cult of the masculine, strong body in Stalinist cinema to the shifting signification of the naked body (male and female) in post-war cinema and to the display of a sexualised body in the late Soviet era – this book establishes the extent to which Soviet...
This book explores evocations of and allusions to sexual desire in Soviet cinema, 1919–1991.
By deploying several lines of investigation – from the cult of the masculine, strong body in Stalinist cinema to the shifting signification of the naked body (male and female) in post-war cinema and to the display of a sexualised body in the late Soviet era – this book establishes the extent to which Soviet...