Publications

In Preparation
Vidan, Aida. Beginner's Bosnian. Hippocrene Books, In Preparation. Print.
Forthcoming
Vidan, Aida. “Rules of Indifferent Places: Public Institutions and Youth in Two Croatian Films”. Studies in East European Cinema (Forthcoming). Print.
Vidan, Aida. “South Slavic Women's Ballads”. The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. Ed. Margaret H. Beissinger. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. Print.
Vidan, Aida. “The South Slavic Serpent-Groom Ballad: A Myth of Rebirth”. Dragons Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Ed. Joseph F. Nagy. Turnhout, Chicago, Los Angeles: Brepols and UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Forthcoming. Print.
Vidan, Aida. “Database of ballads and lyric songs from the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Traditional Literature with 2,000 transcribed texts. Widener Library, Harvard University”. Forthcoming: n. pag. Print.
2022
Vidan, Aida. “Lectia Application for Croatian”. National Foreign Language Institute, University of Maryland 2022: n. pag. Print.
2021
Vidan, Aida. “Rajko Grlić and Cadences of Reality”. Rajko Grlić, One More for the Road. A director’s notes on exile, family and film. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2021. Print.
2020
Owls and Others
Owls and Others. 2020. Film.
Vidan, Aida, and Jurica Pavičić. “Croatian Film: The State, Its Citizen, and the Faltering Future”. Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits. Eds. Ana Grgić and Lydia Papadimitriou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Print.
2019
Hands of Ours
Vidan, Aida. Hands of Ours. 2019. Film.
2018
Vidan, Aida. “Framing the Body, Vocalizing the Pain: Perspectives by the South Slavic Female Directors”. Studies in European Cinema 15 (2018). Print.
Vidan, Aida. “Shredding History: Documentary and the Undocumentable in Makavejev’s Hole in the Soul.”. Mysteries of Makavejev: Eros, Ideology, Montage . Eds. Vadim Erent and Bonita Rhoads. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2018. Print.
2017
Vidan, Aida. “Perceptions of Authority and Freedom in Late Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Film.”. Studies in Eastern European Cinema. Europeanization in East-Central European Fiction Film and Television (1980-2000) (2017). Print.
Blue, Arrival
Vidan, Aida (director). Blue, Arrival. Solentia Productions, 2017. Film.
Vidan, Aida. “Kulturološko-iskustveni pristup poučavanju hrvatskoga kao inoga jezika / Cultural-experiential approach to teaching Croatian as a second language”. Croaticum: Savjetovanje za lektore hrvatskoga kao inoga jezika. 3 (2017). Print.
The Immigrant
Vidan, Aida, and Sanja Zdjelar, ed. The Immigrant. 2017. Film.
2016
Vidan, Aida. “Irresistible Irreverence: Dušan Makavejev’s Amateur Films and the Yugoslav Cine-Club Scene”. Experimental Cinema in State Socialist Eastern Europe; Studies in East European Cinema 7 (special issue) (2016). Print.
Vidan, Aida. “Magicians and Captive Maidens: Oral Sources and the Croatian Renaissance Drama.”. Classics@ 14: Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016. Web. Online text
2015
Tereza's House
Vidan, Aida (director). Tereza's House. USA/Croatia: Solentia Productions, 2015. Film.
2014
Regret
Vidan, Aida, and Sanja Zdjelar. Regret. USA, 2014. Film.

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