Dr. Jülide Etem
Assistant Professor
The Department of Media Studies
University of Virginia
Dr. Jülide Etem (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. Etem is also the Director of the Film Studies Concentration and the Chair of the Film Studies Curriculum Committee at UVA. Her research examines how institutions sponsor, produce, exhibit, and distribute film for their various purposes.
In her forthcoming manuscript, Film Diplomacy and US-Turkey Relations: Mediating Race and Modernization (Columbia University Press), Etem analyzes educational films as portable technologies for solving infrastructural problems, communicating public service messages, delivering information campaigns, implementing foreign policy, and influencing social practices in Turkey and U.S.–Turkey relations between 1930 and 1986. She contends that film served as a tool for forging closer ties, seamlessly aligning with different institutional agendas within a broader modernization project underpinned by racialized assumptions.
To get connected, please reach Dr. Etem at aje4v@virginia.edu.
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Upcoming Events at UVA
Hollywood’s Embassies with Ross Melnick (University of California Santa Barbara)
Whitewashing the Movies with David C. Oh (Rutgers University)
Industrial Filmmaking with Craig Perrin (Independent Film Producer)
“Building Bridges: Addressing Gun Violence through Storytelling”
Film Distribution Industry: A Discussion with NEON’s CEO & Founder Tom Quinn
Cinematic Guerrillas in China with Jie Li (Harvard University)
Cinema of Extractions with Brian Jacobson (California Institute of Technology)
Upcoming Conferences
“Projecting Whiteness: Educational Films and the Erasure of Diversity in Modern Turkey.” Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program’s Annual Conference, “Looking Turk-ish: A Modern Identity Reframed.” Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois. 2024.
“Screens & Statecraft: USIS Film Diplomacy in Cold War Turkey.” European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). İzmir, Turkey. 2024.
“US Government Film Programing in Turkey: 1949-1989.” International Communication Association (ICA). Gold Coast, Australia. 2024.
“Science Education and Diplomacy: How Physics Films Shaped the US-Turkey Alliance.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Boston, MA. 2024.