It argues that in that decade, stars of silent American cinema, in particular Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Pearl White, and Mary Pickford offered the Soviet viewers, as well as critics and filmmakers, alternative models of new masculinity and femininity.įor Soviet Russia in the 1920s, America became a kind of measuring stick of success (1) on the road toward the new, technologically advanced and efficient Soviet society. This paper explores some of the cinematic links that existed in the 1920s between Soviet Russia and its great "Other", America. STARS OF EARLY AMERICAN CINEMA AS MODELS OF NEW FEMININITY AND MASCULINITY IN SOVIET RUSSIA IN THE 1920S Models of New Femininity and Masculinity in Soviet Russia in the 1920s Models of New Femininity and Masculinity in Soviet Russia in the 1920s
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