June 30, 2015
The Jerusalem Fund Cultural Programs
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Film Scholar Terri Ginsberg discusses Palestine-solidarity filmmaking, focusing predominantly on To Live in Freedom, a 1974 documentary directed by Simon Louvish, and featuring Palestinian writer and intellectual Fouzi El-Asmar. She examines the relationship between Zionism, European colonialism, class stratification and racism in Palestine/Israel, and suggests historical ties between the establishment of the film studies discipline during the 1960s, and U.S. government interference in the socio-cultural sphere.
Terri Ginsberg received her doctorate in cinema studies from New York University (NYU) and has taught film, media, literary and cultural studies at Rutgers University, NYU, Dartmouth College, Ithaca College, SUNY-Purchase and the City University of New York. Her areas of scholarly expertise include Palestinian/Israeli cinema, German Cinema, Holocaust film, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, and theories of academic pedagogy and institutions. Her book-length publications include a multi-authored, co-edited encyclopedia, Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema; a monograph, Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology; and two co-edited collections, Perspectives on German Cinema and A Companion to German Cinema. She has also published several articles on cinema of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle, among other topics, in anthologies and academic journals, including Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Spectator, Arab Studies Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Textual Practice, Genders, and Journal of the History of Sexuality.
