Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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This thesis investigates three films by pre-revolutionary Russian director Yevgeni Bauer, in which men obsessed with portraits of dead women enter into relationships with female stage performers,...Show moreThis thesis investigates three films by pre-revolutionary Russian director Yevgeni Bauer, in which men obsessed with portraits of dead women enter into relationships with female stage performers, who die as a result of this relationship. I argue that the stasis and death invoked by the portraiture these men obsess over clashes with the kinetic nature of these women, which is indicated in part by their self-expression on the stage, in such a way as to introduce the necessity of female death into the relationships. Further, I argue that the construction of the films indicates a critical view of the male position in these relationships.Show less