Media and the Global Cold War

Rossen Djagalov is associate professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU. He is the author of From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third World. Arvind Rajagopal is professor of media studies at NYU and affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis. His books include The Indian Public Sphere: Structure and Transformation.

• Introduction: Media and the Global Cold War. 1 Section I: Infrastructures and Institutions Chapter 1: Haunted by the Specter of Socialist Humanism: East Side/West Side and the Contradictions of Cold War Liberalism in US Commercial Television by Shannan Clark. Chapter 2: Astronomers, Economists, and the Cold War Origins of Radio Spectrum Auctions by James Schwoch. Chapter 3: Visual contestation over ITU's mandate at the Golden Antenna Film Festival, 1971-1991 by Charli Muller. Chapter 4: A Prehistory of the Spectacle in India by Arvind Rajagopal Chapter 5: The Writers' Conference: Cultural Diplomacy and Third World Literary Relation by Adhira Mangalagiri Section II: Cinematic Internationalism Chapter 6: Al-Biruni in Tashkent: On Cinema of Cultural Heritage and Revolutionary Patience by Masha Salazkina. Chapter 7: Kristin Roth-Ey, Cinema and the "soft power" business: SEF and the Global South in the Cold War Chapter 8: Oil and Guns, Airships and Moles: Children's Cinema between Czechoslovakia and Iran by Alice Lovejoy. Chapter 9: Contemporary Cinematic Solidarities and Resuscitating the Cold War Media Internationalism by Sima Kokotovic. Section III: Enduring Forms Chapter 10: The Purloined Submarine: Glomar Explorer and the Media Theory of Cold War Secrecy by Henning Trüper. Chapter 11: Cold-War Corruption in Africa: Politics and the Press on Nigeria's Cement Armada by Steven Pierce. Chapter 12: The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory? by Durba Mitra. Chapter 13: The Cold War Bunker Imagination and the Survival of Shelter Thinking by Patrick Deer.

"Djagalov and Rajagopal have assembled something rare: a genuinely global account of how Cold War technopolitics built the communication infrastructures and cultural forms we still inhabit. This collection recovers erased histories with striking precision and real analytical ambition." —Dwaipayan Banerjee, author of Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution