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Masha Shpolberg

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Masha Shpolberg is a film and media scholar specializing in global documentary, Central, and Eastern European cinema, ecocinema, and women’s cinema. Her first book, Labor in Late Socialism: The Cinema of Polish Workers’ Unrest, explores how filmmakers responded to successive waves of strikes by co-opting, confronting, or otherwise challenging the representational legacy of socialist realism. Together with Lukas Brasiskis, she is co-editor of Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe (Berghahn Books, 2023) and with Anastasia Kostina of The New Russian Documentary: Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism (forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in Fall 2024). Her academic articles have appeared in Slavic and East European Journal, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, The Polish Review, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. She has also contributed film criticism to Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Tablet, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a PhD in film and media studies and comparative literature from Yale University.