Soviet Spectatorship

"Soviet Spectatorship provides an 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 analyses understudied films such as Happy Finish (1934), The Laurels of Miss Ellen Gray (1935) and A Strict Young Man (1936), identifying the three fundamental 'structures of looking' - surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship - that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject"--

Samuel Goff is Affiliated Lecturer in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Editorial Director of the film platform Klassiki, and a former editor at The Calvert Journal.

Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Physical/Visual Culture 1. From Bodies to Subjects 2. Beautiful Bodies: The Bather 3. Gendered Bodies: The Runner 4. Violent Bodies: The Footballer Conclusion: Utopia Incarnate Glossary Bibliography Index