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Table of Contents for First Issue of Black Camera

In partnership with the Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive (BFCA), IU Press/Journals will publish Black Camera, An International Film Journal (The New Series), edited by Michael T. Martin, beginning in the fall of 2009. 

Black Camera is devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States. Published twice a year, it features essays and interviews that engage film in social as well as political context and in relation to historical and economic forces that bear on the reception, distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.

Below is a preliminary table of contents for the premier issue of Black Camera, The New Series, including some of the articles being considered.

Editor’s Notes

Africa

Cinemas of the Maghreb by Roy Armes
Film & Trauma: Africa Speaks to Itself Through Truth & Reconciliation Films by Keyan Tomaselli and Martin Mhando
Trash and a New Approach to Cinema Engage by Kenneth Harrow

Caribbean

Caribbean Cinematic Creolite by Gilberto Blasini
The Emergence of Caribbean Feature Films by Keith Warner and Bruce Paddington
Moussa Sene Absa on finding Waru in Barbados by Jane Bryce

At Home (United States)

An article by either Terri Francis or Sheril Antonio
An interview with Charles Burnett by Michael Martin

Out of the Archive: Challenges and Opportunities for New Scholarly Access from Old Media Collections by David Rowntree
Reviews
Archival News
Professional Notes
Contributors
Poster Gallery

Volume 1, number 1 will be published in November 2009.  To subscribe, click here.

Black Camera—Call for Papers

Black Camera is an international peer reviewed film journal devoted to the study of the black cinematic experience. Read this earlier blog post for more on this journal now at Indiana University Press. 

The only scholarly journal of its kind in the United States, Black Camera features essays and interviews, film and book reviews, archival notes, reports and programmatic statements that engage film in social as well as political contexts and in relation to historical and economic forces that bear on the reception, distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.

Black Camera's aims are to document, encourage, and invigorate research and study of black film-making as an art form, cultural and political practice, and historical activity; engage in conversation with other cinematic traditions, movements and practices in world cinema; stimulate
new, and refresh traditional, theoretical and analytical perspectives; disseminate research to enhance the teaching of black film; and serve as a depository and showcase for black artistic and intellectual
achievement. 

The editor invites submissions on:

• Reconsideration of key black "classic" films
• Black (and other related postcolonial and third world) programmatic statements and manifestos
• Black sexuality in film
• Black filmmaking and cinematic formations in Europe
• Archival film documents
• Slavery and anti-colonial struggles in the historical film
• Lusophone and Francophone African cinemas
• Cinemas of the Maghreb
• Black Hollywood
• Black animation
• Women filmmakers of the African diaspora
• Caribbean cinemas
• Reception studies
• Film directors, screenwriters, actors

Michael T. Martin
Director, Black Film Center/Archive
Indiana Unversity, Bloomington