Jeffrey Geiger is Professor of Film at the University of Essex, where he established the Centre for Film and Screen Media. Books include Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination (2007), American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation (2011), the co-edited Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (2nd ed. 2013), and Cinematicity in Media History (2013). Work has appeared in numerous collections and journals such as New Formations, Third Text, African American Review, Cinema Journal, Studies in Documentary Film, and PMLA. He has been a member of BAAS since 1998.

Jeffrey Geiger on the 2019-20 BAAS Founders’ Research Award

I am grateful to have been recipient of a BAAS Founders’ Award – the support has been invaluable to my research into the early uses of amateur colour film. The BAAS Founders’ Award provides UK scholars with financial assistance for research travel and invited conference presentations, and more recently has… Continue reading