Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis study will be of great value to those researching topics such as affect, texture, and pattern (faktura); gesture; and the body in the Soviet cultural context.
* Choice *
Socialist Senses shows remarkable range and matching ambitions...Widdis sets as her goal to reimagine the history of early Soviet film entirely: to tell a story as new and upending as its objects of study.
* The Russian Review *
Widdis's rich and fascinating book has opened a new perspective from which to think about the Soviet cinema.
* Kritika *
Wonderfully illustrated, Socialist Senses will engage all scholars of the period: not only does Widdis add to the growing list of studies on Soviet senses, her work is the first to investigate touch and feeling and how they materialized on the Soviet screen.
* Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema *
In Socialist Senses, Widdis provides an arresting take on Soviet cinema that pushes Russian/Soviet film criticism beyond the critical frameworks of auteurism and formalism where it has long remained.
* InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) *
The author's often dazzling analysis opens readers' eyes—and senses—to the vivid textures and material of the period, so much so that some might find it difficult to look at and experience early Soviet cinema in the same way again.
* Slavic Review *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction: Feeling Soviet
1. Avant-Garde Sensations
2. Material Sensations
3. Textile Sensations
4. Socialist Sensations
5. Primitive Sensations
6. Modern Sensations
7. Socialist Feelings
8. Socialist Transformations
9. Socialist Pleasures
Conclusion: The Death of Sensation
Glossary of Russian Terms
Bibliography
Index
