29 Feb Associate Professor Ana Grgić receives honorable mention at BASEES Women’s Forum Prizes
Associate Professor Ana Grgić received The BASEES Women’s Forum Honorable Mention for her contribution to the emerging field of Balkan cinema history.
In her book Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022) she offers a compelling account on the consumption and production of moving images across the Balkans.
This impressive monograph makes a major contribution to the emerging field of early Balkan cinema history as well as to early cinema studies more broadly, providing a fascinating account of how moving images were both made and consumed in the Balkans. Adopting a transnational and cross-cultural approach and drawing on materials from archives in thirteen countries (Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, and the United Kingdom), the author challenges the traditional approach of early cinema studies, which often focuses on the ‘national’, and instead shows how the multiculturality of the Balkan space influenced visual culture and cinema between the 1890s and the mid-1910s.
We congratulate her for receiving this prize!