SERGEI M EISENSTEIN

uted seminal papers on film aesthetics to various international journals. His
book on the Indian director Guru Dutt, Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts (Penguin
BooksIndia,2012),wontheNationalAwardforthebestbookoncinema.
PietroMontani
Pietro Montani, philosopher, is professor of aesthetics at the University of Rome
La Sapienza. He is currently working on the influence of new technologies on
imaginative processes and common sense. He is the editor of the Italian multivolume
edition of Eisenstein’s theoretical works (Venice: Marsilio, 1981-ongoing).
His latest books are L’immaginazione intermediale [The intermedial imagination]
(Rome: Laterza, 2010) and Tecnologie della sensibilità. Estetica e
immaginazione interattiva [Technologies of sensibility: Aesthetics and interactive
imagination](Milan:Cortina,2014).
PhilipRosen
Philip Rosen is professor of modern culture and media at Brown University,
where he is also affiliated faculty in the departments of American Studies and
English. He is author of Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and editor of Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology:
A Film Theory Reader (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986). He has
publishedarticlesandessaysonawiderangeoftopicsinfilmandmediastudies,
includingworkonnationalityandglobalityincinema,andworkonthehistoryof
filmtheory.
NatalieRyabchikova
Natalie Ryabchikova is a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary Film Studies
Program at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is currently working on a
dissertation entitled “Sergei Eisenstein in Europe and the Americas.” She has
published articles on early Russian and Soviet film history in the journals Kinovedcheskie
zapiski and Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema and recently wrote a chapter
on ARRK and the Soviet transition to sound for the volume Sound, Speech,
Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema, ed. Lilya Kaganovsky and Masha Salazkina
(Bloomington:IndianaUniversityPress,2014).Shealsocontributedcommentary
fortheHyperkinoeditionofSergeiEisenstein’sStrike(Ruscico,2010).
MashaSalazkina
MashaSalazkinaisresearchchairintransnationalmediaartsandcultureatConcordia
University, Montreal. Her work incorporates transnational approaches to
film theory and cultural and institutional history with a focus on Soviet Union,
Latin America, and Italy. She is the author of In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009) and coeditor of Sound, Speech, Music
in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).
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