Introduction: Films and Societies in Southeastern Europe
This special issue of Contemporary Southeastern Europe, titled Films and Societies in Southeastern Europe, is a collection of six research articles and one research essay that explore multiple current and historical relations between film productions and societal developments in Southeastern Europe. The issue collects articles written by renowned university professors as well as young highly promising researchers, including one PhD candidate, and thus the volume embraces academic experience together with innovative and fresh ideas and approaches. The seven authors use different academic perspectives including approaches from history, sociology, gender, visual, literature and film studies in order to reflect phenomena of film productions and related societal circumstances that have thus far been researched only rarely or not at all.
Armina Galijaš
Armina Galijaš is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. She studied Eastern and Southeastern European History, Modern History and Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She worked at the Department of East and Southeast European History from 2003 to 2005 an from 2005 to 2011 she was a researcher and lectorer at the Department of East European History at the University of Vienna where she also obtained her doctorate in History. Her research interests and academic teaching focus on modern Southeast European history.