Cross-dressing in Stalinist film

[gpirog]

Does Marfa Lapkina count in the last scene of "The Old and the New?"

Gerald Pirog


Nicola Kuchta wrote:
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> I am trying to locate instances of cross-dressing in Stalinist film (1929-1953) but am having trouble moving beyond the obvious: Volga Volga, My iz Kronshtadta, Ivan the Terrible (all parts), and the "masculine" attire of women in particular moments of Aleksandr Nevskii, Traktoristy, Zhdi menia, etc. Your help would be much appreciated.
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> I am looking for any example of cross-dressing regardless of context. By "cross-dressing," I mean moments in which a character (principle or otherwise) appears in or adopts clothing that gender-codes them differently from other characters of the same sex. So, for example, in addition to Orlova's comedic sartorial "manliness"  in Volga Volga, I include the less obvious "frontovaia zhena" character in Zhdi menia and the times when Ladynina and her kolkhoznitsy appear to be coded "male" or "female" by their dress in Traktoristy. The mannequins in Medvedkin's Schast'e also qualify. 
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> Please reply off list with any suggestions or insights to nicolakuchta at yahoo.com. 
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> Thank you very much.
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> Nicola Kuchta
> U Pittsburgh
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