Skip Navigation

Screen 2007 48(1):45-67; doi:10.1093/screen/hjm003
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Salazkina, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Screen. All rights reserved

Addressing the dialectics of sexual difference in Eisenstein's Que viva México!

Masha Salazkina


  Abstract

This essay proposes a new reading of Sergei Eisenstein's conception of dialectics through his unfinished filmQue viva México! (1930-31), and his writings, both personal and theoretical, about it. The essay explores the filmapos;s treatment of women and indigenous people within the context of contemporary Mexican culture, engaging with feminist film theory and offering a critique of semiotics. It further links images of transgressive sexuality in the film to Eisensteinapos;s later writing on the protoplasm and the bi-sex understood as an originary state of nature and human consciousness, prior to sexual differentiation. The materials drawn upon here have not previously been translated into English, nor discussed at length by other scholars. The conclusion addresses the traumatic impact that the loss of the footage of Que viva México! had on the Soviet director, bringing to bear in the analysis the metaphors used in Eisensteinapos;s writing about the film.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.