Masha Salazkina

Masha Salazkina is a professor of film and moving image studies at Concordia University, Montreal. Her first book, In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico (2009), reconstructs the transcontinental legacies of Soviet revolutionary avantgardes of the 1920s-1930s. World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (2023) takes the Tashkent Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America as an aperture into the investigation of both, material networks and symbolic forms that were shared across (pro)socialist Cold War film cultures globally in the 1960s-1970s.
Her most recent book – Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture (2024), focuses on the production, international distribution, and reception of the highest-grossing movie in the history of Soviet film exhibition, the Mexican historical melodrama Yesenia (1971), offering a transnational and comparative analysis of women’s cultures in 1970s Soviet Union and Mexico.
Masha also coedited Sound Speech Music in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2015), Global Approaches to Amateur Film Histories and Cultures (2021), and Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media (2025). She is currently co-editing a collection of scholarly essays on Cinemas of Global Solidarity for Oxford UP and a special issue of the Journal of Feminist Media Historiographies on Gender and Developmentalism, scheduled to come out in 2026.