Masha Salazkina Boeken

Exploring the unexpected global impact of a 1975 Mexican melodrama, this work delves into its unprecedented success in the Soviet Union, challenging traditional narratives in film history. Masha Salazkina conducts a thorough cross-cultural analysis, linking the telenovela tradition with both Mexican Golden Age cinema and Soviet melodrama. The book advocates for a broader understanding of global media circuits, emphasizing the importance of transculturation and the emotional connections forged between Latin America and the Soviet Union, while critiquing established Western-centric film canons.

"World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities and Solidarities reconstructs the trajectories of international film circulation between the Soviet Bloc and the countries of the Global South in the mid- to late Twentieth Century. The book takes as its focal point the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa and Latin America that took place in Uzbekistan (USSR) throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Centering on the vast body of cinematic work from the three continents screened at the festival and paying particular attention to the internal tensions and gender dynamics within it, the book proposes world socialist cinema as a distinct formation, providing an alternative to Euro-centric and/or national and regional narratives of film history: an international socialist cinema as seen from the vantage point of the Global South"--