Volume 3, Number 2 of Black Camera has just been released by IU Press, and features a new section called Close-Up, which critically examines a particular subject in film employing a variety of modes of inquiry. In this issue, the focus is on Nothing But a Man (1964) by Robert Young.
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In partnership with IU Press, Black Camera Volume 3, Issue 1 has arrived!
Featuring the provocative art work of Adele Stephenson on the front and back cover as well as the poster gallery, the latest edition to the journal includes an interview with Stanley Nelson on the occasion of the screening of Freedom Riders at IU Cinema; articles by Robert J. Patterson, Akin Adesokan, Lesley Marx, and Emma Hamilton & Troy Saxby; as well as interesting book reviews, articles on FESPACO, and documents.
With the great assistance and guidance of Gyeongja Jun (GJ) Lee, the BFC/A has launched an updated version of its website along with its sister website for Black Camera, BFC/A’s academic journal. Please visit our sites by clicking on their image below:
The Spring 2011 edition of Black Camera has arrived and is an especially important version which the Black Film Center/Archive hopes can reach film scholars as well as professors seeking to incorporate these readings into their curriculum.
This issue featured Guest Editor Dr. LaMonda Horton Stallings, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies, and delves into the topic of sexuality and eroticism in Black film, cinema, and video.
In this issue, Stallings states, “all the writers within this special issue of Black Camera diverge from traditional scholarship on black film and challenge what film genres are worthy of study, as well as redefine what is sexual, sensual, and erotic on film” in order to go beyond the traditional normative Black sexuality.
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Editor’s Notes 1
Precious and the Novel Push (Suzette Spencer and Carlos Miranda, guest editors) 4
Afrosurrealism in Film/Video (Terri Simone Francis, guest editor) 6
Hyenas in the Enchanted Brothel: “The Naked Truth” in Djibril Diop Mambéty 8
Greg Thomas
“Let It Go Black”: Desire and the Erotic Subject in the Films of Bill Gunn 26
Marlo D. David
“Redemptive Softness”: Interiority, Intellect, and Black Women’s Ecstasy in Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground 47
L.H. Stallings
All the Sad Young Men: Whiteness as Melancholic Haunting in Black Queer Independent Film 63
Samuel Park
The “Top” of the Heap: Race, Manhood, and Legitimation in My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story 80
Terry Rowden
Our Stories Have Never Been Told: Preliminary Thoughts on Black Lesbian Cultural Production as Historiography in The Watermelon Woman 100
Matt Richardson
Variant Sexualities and African Modernity in Joseph Gaye Ramaka’s Karmen Geї 114
Babacar M’Baye
From a Real Place and Real People: Interview with Mississippi Damned Writer/Director Tina Mabry 130
Marlon Rachquel Moore
African Film’s Meaningful Body 138
Olivier Barlet
Poster Gallery: Coming Attractions 146
Andrea Barnwell and Valerie Cassel Oliver, eds., Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists
and the Moving Image Since 1970 155
Phyllis Lynne Burns
Kareem Mortimer, Children of God 159
Angelique V. Nixon
Dennis Dortch, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy 162
Dolores V. Sisco
The Black Film Center/Archive recently received the annual circulation report for its academic journal Black Camera. Since July 2009, over 1,700 individuals and institutions have subscribed to the journal.
We are so happy to know that the content of this journal, which includes interviews with important directors and artists and essays by prominent scholars, is circulating and reaching those who want to know more about African and African-American film.
Thank you to all our supporters!
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Last week, Michael Martin interviewed Jefferson Pinder for our academic journal, Black Camera (printed by Indiana University Press). Pinder is a Washington based video artist who seeks to find black identity through the most dynamic circumstances.
Click here to learn more about Jefferson Pinter
Kaleidoscope from Jeffrey Pinder on Vimeo.
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