Cinemas of Global Solidarity

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Edited by Masha Salazkina and Matthew Croombs

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sociology, global

Publishing date

2026 (August 21, 2026)

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 328 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-778589-8

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Book Presentation:
Cinemas of Global Solidarity explores how filmmakers, movements, and networks have harnessed the cinema to forge transformative relations between people across the globe in their joint struggles against political oppression. Focusing on the history of anti-colonialism, the book shows how the aim of solidarity shaped film form and practices, including Third Cinema and women's collective filmmaking, and the history of films as objects of circulation within material networks. Cinemas of Global Solidarity also demonstrates how the traces of anti-colonial solidarity persist in contemporary moving image cultures, from the co-opted spaces of global art cinema and the art gallery to contemporary activist media.

About the authors:
Masha Salazkina is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico (2009), World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinites and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (2023) and Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture (2024). She has also co-edited Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema (2014), Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures (2021) and Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media (2025).
Matthew Croombs is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on the intersection between anti-colonial film, documentary, and film theory, and has been published in Screen, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Cinema Journal), Discourse, Third Text, Quarterly Review of Film and Television Studies, and several other journals. He is the author of Cinema Against State Terror: French Anti-colonial Documentary and the Algerian War (forthcoming).

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