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- Title
Screening sovereignty: Cold War mediations of nationhood in USIA motion picture operations in the SWANA region.
- Authors
Vukoder, Bret
- Abstract
This article explores how visible constructions and perceptions of sovereignty in the motion pictures of the United States Information Agency (USIA) factored into the dynamics of US Cold War foreign policy amidst the rise of the Non-Aligned Movement. Specifically, it focuses on agency films about and circulating within the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region – such as the locally produced Iraq al-Youm newsreels (c.1956–58). By mapping the different policy contexts of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations onto the USIA films' aesthetics and themes, the article illustrates continuities in the United States's attempts to expressively leverage images and evocations of sovereignty to sell and consolidate its policy interests in the region.
- Subjects
UNITED States Information Agency; COLD War, 1945-1991; NON-Aligned Movement (Organization); SOVEREIGNTY; EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; INTERNATIONAL relations; GOVERNMENT agencies; CULTURAL diplomacy
- Publication
Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, 2024, Vol 18, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
2515-8538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/jciaw_00118_1