In Excess: Sergei Eisentein's Mexico - Cineclub

Gogol, Nikolai, 125
Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 8, 36, 41,
126
Goncharova, Natalia, 29
Goodwin, James, 38
Gosfi lmofond Archives, 2
Gosudarstyennyi Institut Kinimatografi
i (GIK), 1
“graphic grammar,” 31
“Grigori Alexandrov on a beach in
Mexico,” 131
Gruening, Ernest, 81, 82
Grundproblem, 3
Guerrero, Xavier, 82, 112, 125
Guggenheim grants, 110, 111
Gunning, Tom, 5, 95–96
Haberman, Thorberg, 112
“Hacienda” (Porter), 20, 113–16
hacienda Tetlapayac, 108, 109–10
Hansen, Miriam, 5, 6, 8, 150
Harbison, Robert, 92
Hegel, G. W. F., 128
Heidegger, Martin, 86
Helprin, Morris, 77
Henry Ford Hospital or The Flying Bed
(Kahlo), 176
Hershfi eld, Joanne, 56
historical authenticity: search for,
60–61; and sexuality, 68
historical dialectics, 16, 124
historical evolutionism, 17
historical spectacle, 67–68
history: and allegory, 162–63; anxiety
of, 76; fetishization of, 66, 69;
mythological construction of,
17, 53; organic continuity of, 60;
relation to biological time, 128;
relation to time, 128
Hitler, Adolf, 159
Hollywood cinema, and avant-garde
modernism, 5–6
homoeroticism, 19, 20; association
of St. Sebastian with, 122; and
baroque excess, 148; and trauma of
Eisenstein’s sexual difference, 178
homosexuality: in ancient Mexico, 125;
and the bullfi ght, 102
huicholes, 125
Humboldt, Alexander von, 36
Huyssen, Andreas, 6
hybridity, 83, 190n27
Iampolskii, Mikhail, 9, 10, 37, 132, 156,
158, 165
identity: “hybrid,” 83; as a matter
of disguise, 128. See also national
identity
ideology: ethos as function of, 148; of
Mexican postrevolutionary state,
18, 19, 22, 31
Idols Behind Altars (Brenner), 23, 35,
41–42, 78, 82, 91, 105, 141
image, duration of, 38
Indian Baroque, 105
indigenismo: central to Mexican revolutionary
national identity, 17, 19,
23–24, 26, 63, 72; and the criollo,
105; permanence of behind Spanish
colonial customs, 91; and trans-
Atlantic anthropology of early
twentieth century, 27
indigenous art: as expression of authentic
cultural identity and basis
for unity, 26; and Mexican mural
project, 19
indigenous mortuary celebrations, 146
individual consciousness, 128
infantilism, and protoplasm, 128
Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI), 159
International School of Archeology,
27
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 57
Italian Renaissance, 16
Itzamana, principle of opposites, 43
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein), 9, 12, 13,
38, 52, 146
Izquierdo, Maria, 78
Jalisco, 130
Jesuits, 146, 149
index : 213