The editors of and contributors to Governing Genealogies of International Film Education offer a critical historiographic understanding of governmentalized film education during the Cold War. Chapters examine the production of hygiene and cultural films in Travancore, India during the postcolonial period, and Michigan State University’s documentary collaboration with Iran during the 1970s, among other topics, elucidating cinema’s deployment as a state apparatus and its implications for global cultures, subject positions, and social relations.

Governing Genealogies of International Film Education investigates this distinct modality of cultural production and policy to shed necessary light on the ideological overdetermination of institutionalized film education as well as on audiovisual education as an international academic discipline. The contributors show how governmentalized film education has taught American exceptionalism, hegemony, and colonialism. They also theorize about and provide methodological examples of how film archives and film studies have framed prevailing understandings of cinema’s role in American and world history.

Contributors: Kaveh Askari, Zoë Druick, Bindu Menon Mannil, Wissam Mouawad, and the editors

Hadi Gharabaghi is an adjunct professor at The Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. He is the coeditor of Streaming Video in the Global South. He has coedited a special issue of the Journal of e-Media Studies on the USIA motion picture archives, and is a contributor to Global Horror: Hybridity and Alterity in Transnational Horror Film and Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice.

Terri Ginsberg is Assistant Teaching Professor of Cinema Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema, Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle: Towards a Critical Analytic of Palestine Solidarity Films, and Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology. She is the coauthor or coeditor of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice, A Companion to German Cinema,Perspectives on German Cinema, and Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World.