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
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
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 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.

