{"product_id":"soviet-spectatorship-observing-the-body-in-physical-and-visual-culture-9781350411166","title":"Soviet Spectatorship: Observing the Body in Physical and Visual Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoviet Spectatorship \u003c\/i\u003eanswers 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClose readings of understudied films such as \u003ci\u003eHappy Finish\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), \u003ci\u003eThe Laurels of Miss Ellen Gray\u003c\/i\u003e (1935) and \u003ci\u003eA Strict Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Goff\u003c\/b\u003e is Affiliated Lecturer in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Editorial Director of the film platform \u003ci\u003eKlassiki\u003c\/i\u003e, and a former editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Calvert Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384367317266,"sku":"9781350411166","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b21222c7-9b7b-4b27-ac93-1ec3e163c196.jpg?v=1750172496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/soviet-spectatorship-observing-the-body-in-physical-and-visual-culture-9781350411166","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}