Black Film Center/Archive

Black Camera: A Micro Journal of Black Film Studies

Black Camera is the official Micro Journal of Black Film Studies published by the Black Film Center/Archive of the Department of African American and African Disapora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. With an international circulation that includes film industry professionals, scholars, and students of black film production and history.

Black Camera serves two primary functions:

1. To engender and sustain a formal academic discussion of black film production amongst its broad and diverse readership, including scholars, activists, documentary filmmakers, film producers, critics, actors, university students, and other patrons. This is accomplished through the review of historical as well as contemporary books and films, researched critiques of recent scholarship on black film, interviews with accomplished film professionals, and editorials on the developments of black creative culture.
2. To apprise BFC/A patrons and friends of new acquisitions and recent developments at the archive. This is particularly important because the discovery of black film artifacts from the early twentieth century continues to occur. Black Camera also documents the activities of the BFC/A, highlighting special programs such as the Artists-in-Residence Series and various film festivals.

Black Camera is published biannually. It began in 1985, four years after the BFC/A was established, and evolved into its present Micro-Journal format in 2002.

Dr. Michael Martin, Director of the Black Film Center/Archive, is the primary editor of this publication.