Dr Agata Frymus has conducted research under the supervision of Professor Daniel Biltereyst within the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University from 2018 to 2020.
During the fellowship, Dr Frymus has worked through six work packages outlined in the initial project proposal: 1. Socio-geographical analysis, 2. Box-office data analysis, 3. Reception research, 4. Analysis of secondary sources, 5. Creation of digital map, 6. Writing the monograph. She is currently re-writing the materials to be published as a monograph. In addition to this work, Dr Frymus has completed some projects that arose from her PhD thesis: for instance, her first monograph, Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood (Rutgers University Press, 2020) was published in April 2020, in month 24 of MC Individual Fellowship.
DISSEMINATION – TALKS AND CONFERENCES
• Co-organised two international conferences, held at Ghent University (Belgium) and Leeds University (UK)
• Organised two conference panels (SCMS 2019 and SCMS 2020, to be postponed to 2021)
• Gave 11 conference presentations across Universities in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe and the US
• Gave two invited talks (University of Southampton, Leeds University)
• Gave three workshops/ public talks at Ghent University and Utrecht University (the Netherlands) in association with White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (UK)
• Gave one online event (a public talk via Zoom, in association with the University of the West of England, UK), which had to be postponed due to COVID-19. As such, it had to take place in May
2020, after the official end of the fellowship
• Gave two podcast interviews: one in Polish, and one in English
• Participated in one symposium (Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK)
• Participated in additional five conferences
DISSEMINATION – ONLINE FORMS
• Created one digital map. Black Women & Cinemas in Harlem
https://Blackcinemagoing.wordpress.com/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) • Created four interactive bibliographies on Black film culture; African American women; Harlem history and film audiences
https://Blackcinemagoing.wordpress.com/bibliography/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) • Written one non-peer reviewed article on historical Black cinemas in Harlem, to be published on Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of NYC History in September 2020
PUBLICATIONS
• Published two journal articles (Other Modernities; Historical Journal of Radio, Film and TV)
• Published one monograph: Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood (Rutgers University Press, 2020)
• Co-edited two journal special issues: Early Popular Visual Culture (with Rebecca Harrison) and Studies in European Cinema (with Laurence Carr and Luca Antoniazzi)
• Written two book chapters for edited volumes: Mario Slugan & Daniel Biltereyst, New Approaches to Early Cinema and Gabor Gergely, Companion to European Cinema. To be published in 2021
by Routledge and in 2022 by Indiana University Press consecutively
• Written three journal articles (Cinema Journal; Early Popular Visual Culture; Alphaville), all accepted for publication in 2021
• Written one book review, to be published in Historical Journal of Radio, Film and Television in 2021
WORK IN PROGRESS
• Written additional two journal articles, which are currently under consideration in Film History and Feminist Media Studies
• Co-written (with David Morton) one book chapter, currently under consideration for Comparing New Cinema Histories: Methodologies and Practices from a Global Perspective, ed. Daniela
Treveri Gennari, Lies Van de Vijver, Pierluigi Ercole