Masha Salazkina

Masha Salazkina is Concordia University Research Chair in Media Arts and Cultures and Associate Professor of Film Studies in Montreal, Canada. Her work incorporates transnational approaches to film and cultural history and theory. She is the author of In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and co-editor of Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2014) and Global Perspectives of Amateur Film and Cultures (Indiana University Press, forthcoming). Salazkina’s work has been published in Cinema Journal, October, Screen, Framework, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Film History, Slavic Review, KinoKultura, and in several edited volumes on a range of topics including migratory and translation practices in film and media, Thirdwordist film festivals, international co-productions, history of film education, and Latin American, Italian, and Soviet cinema.