{"product_id":"in-excess-masha-salazkina-9780226734149","title":"In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1920s and '30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals--including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky--who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the backdrop of this cosmopolitan milieu, \u003ci\u003eIn Excess\u003c\/i\u003e reconstructs the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film \u003ci\u003e Que Viva \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIlluminating the inextricability of Eisenstein's oeuvre from the global cultures of modernity and film, Masha Salazkina situates this unfinished project within the twin contexts of postrevolutionary Mexico and the ideas of such contemporaneous thinkers as Walter Benjamin. In doing so, Salazkina explains how Eisenstein's engagement with Mexican mythology, politics, and art deeply influenced his ideas, particularly about sexuality. She also uncovers the role Eisenstein's bisexuality played in his creative thinking and identifies his use of the baroque as an important turn toward excess and hybrid forms. Beautifully illustrated with rare photographs, \u003ci\u003eIn Excess\u003c\/i\u003e provides the most complete genealogy available of major shifts in this modern master's theories and aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Masha Salazkina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226734145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226734149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/08\/2009 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2009 pg. 23","brand":"Masha Salazkina","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086424256767,"sku":"9780226734149","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed606ed2-2a26-4524-961b-78c0f236e76d.jpg?v=1769094596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-excess-masha-salazkina-9780226734149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}