Black Camera: A Micro Journal of Black Film Studies
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Current Issue:
Volume 21.2, Fall/Winter 2006
- Director's Notes
by Michael T. Martin
- Archive Spotlight: Early 16mm Musicals
by Paul C. Heyde
- Focus on St. Clair Bourne: Pride in the Panther (includes interview and update on Mr. Bourne's current documentary work-in-progress on the Black Panther Party)
- Thirty Years Later: Exploring Gordon Parks as Auteur Through the Leadbelly Lens
by L. Roi Boyd, III
- Far from Home: A Black Camera Movie Review
by Tanisha Ford
- A Black Camera Book Review: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart’s Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
by Joseph Germain Keehn II
- A Black Camera Interview: Audrey T. McCluskey
by Cory Brodnax
- From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
Previous Issues:
Volume 21.1, Spring/Summer 2006
Volume 20.2, Fall/Winter 2005
- Director's Notes: Back in the Day...When Men were Men and Women were Fragile and "True"
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Doing it Her Way: An Interview with Jessie Maple
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Movie Review: Four Brothers by John Singleton: An Old Formula; A New Market
by Anthony McCosham
- No Laughing Matter: Spencer Williams, Jr.'s Christian Moral Vision in The Blood of Jesus
by Damien Strecker
- Black Film Fact
- The BFC/A Acquires the Jessie Maple Collection
by Paul C. Heyde
- News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
- On the Bookshelf
Volume 20.1, Spring/Summer 2005
- Director's Notes: Laying Down Burdens: Of Remembrance and New Beginnings
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Emerging Voices: New Black Filmmakers - "We Have Too Few Heroes" and "We Have to Continue to Bring Forth New Stories"
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Remembering Ossie Davis, 1917-2005
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- The Making of a Documentary: Highlights from the Visit of Artist-In-Residence, Salem Mekuria
by Jennifer Heusel
- Black Film Classics: History Re-Told: The Power of Cultural Knowledge in Euzhan Palcy's Sugar Cane Alley
A Film Review by Laila Amine
- Following the Chisholm Trail: The "Unbought and Unbossed" Campaign
by Jennifer Heusel
- On the Bookshelf/Film Acquisitions
- News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
Volume 19.2, Fall/Winter 2004
- Director's Notes: (South) African on my Mind
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- South African Filmmaker Zola Maseko: "We are in the Process of Making a Tradition"
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Julie Dash's Aesthetic Vision
by Laila Amine
- Sisters of the Screen: Women Warriors of Cinema: Beti Ellerson Presents Africana Women Filmmakers
by Jennifer Heusel
- Black Film Fact
- Filmmaker Salem Mekuria to Conduct Workshop at IU
by Eileen Julien
- News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
- On the Bookshelf/Film Acquisitions
Volume 19.1, Spring/Summer 2004
- Director's Notes: Djimon Hounsou's "Magical" Performance
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Telling Truth and Taking Names: An Interview with Spike Lee
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey
- School Daze: A Reflection - Sixteen Years Later
by Ketwana Wilson-McCormick
- News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
- New BFC/A Endowment Campaign
- Hollywood and The Civil Rights Movement
by Jason Housley
- Black Film Fact
Volume 18.2, Fall/Winter 2003
- Director's Notes: Imaging Blackness, 1915-2002: Exhibit Documents Black Hollywood through Film Posters
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- An Interview with Dr. Edward Mapp: A Passion for Collecting Black Film
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Dr. Edward Mapp: "African Americans in Cinema: An Enduring Odyssey"
by Ketwana Wilson-McCormick
- Black Film Fact
- 8 Mile: Great White Hip-Hop
A Film Review by Steven L. Burks
- News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
- The BFC/A Announces the New William Greaves Collection
- CD-ROM Review: "African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century"
by Paul C. Heyde
Volume 18.1, Spring/Summer 2003
Volume 17.2, Fall/Winter 2002 *
- Director's Notes: Can't Get No Satisfaction: Black Actors in Hollywood
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Black Film Center/Archive Founding Sponsors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Visit Indiana University
Interviewed by John McCluskey
- BFC/A Director Presents Spike Lee with the Oscar Micheaux Distinguished Achievement Award
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Monster's Ball: Hollywood's Grotesque History and/or Something Else Besides?
A Film Review by Crystal L. Keels
- Hollywood Bait and Switch: The 2002 Oscars, Black Commodification, and Black Political Silence (Part One)
by Tyrone R. Simpson II
- Zora, O Zora!: A Celebration of the Work of Zora Neale Hurston
by Crystal L. Keels
- Black Film Fact
- On Our Bookshelf
- News from the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
Volume 17.1, Spring/Summer 2002
- Director's Notes: Haunting History with Truth: The Middle Passage (1999)
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Kickin' Science: Legendary Filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is Inaugural BFC/A Artist-In-Residence
by Crystal L. Keels
- Filmmaker Gloria Rolando: Exploring Complex Cuban Roots
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Communal Cinema in a Global Context
by Nokwenza kaPlaatje
- Lumumba: A Life, A Symbol
A Film Review by Damon Freeman
- Black Orpheus (1959)
A Film Review by Natia L. Steans
- Remembering Rogosin
by Peter Davis
- Black Film Fact
- From the Archive
by Jenny Beasley
Volume 16.2, Fall/Winter 2001
- Director's Notes: Pryor's Pain, Our Gain
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- James Alan McPherson Lecture Highlights Richard Pryor Film Retrospective
by Crystal L. Keels
- Maya Angelou: Telling the Truth, Eloquently
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Promises Deferred: Race Star Trek, and the Future on Television
Book Review by De Witt Douglas Kilgore
- Boarding House Blues (1948)
A Film Review by Natia L. Steans
- The Richard Pryor Film Retrospective
by Crystal L. Keels
- Black Film Fact
- On Our Bookshelf
- From the Archive
by Jenny Beasley
Volume 16.1, Spring/Summer 2001
- Director's Notes: A Hollywood State of Mind
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Tina Andrews: Having Her Say
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Bamboozled by Blackness -- Movie Review
by Christy Tondeur
- Recovering the First Black Film Mogul: Oscar Micheaux -- Book Reviews
by Tryone Simpson
- A BFC/A Website Poll: What is your favorite American Black Film?
- Forgotten Black Treasures: Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams -- Film Series with IU City Lights
- What They Say?: Black Speech in American Film -- A Research Report
by Rose Wilkerson
- Quadroon Blues -- Movie Review
by Natia Steans
- Black Film Fact
- Recovering History: A Fool and His Money -- Movie Review
by David Navone
- From the Archive
by Gayla Koerting and Monique Threatt
Volume 15.2, Fall/Winter 2000 *
- Director's Notes: The Price of Realness: "Bling Bling" at the Movies
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Interview with Melvin Van Peebles: Renaissance Man
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Blackness for Sale: Movie Review of Black and White
by Matthew Oware (additional material by Tyrone Simpson)
- Lessons through Love -- A Book Review of With Ossie & Ruby: In this Life Together by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
by Marcia A. Berry (with additional material by Audrey T. McCluskey)
- One Woman's Hoops & Dreams -- A Movie Review of Love & Basketball
by Shana Brodnax
- Measuring "Mr. Tibbs" -- A Book Review of The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
by Grace Jackson-Brown (with additional material by Tyrone Simpson)
- Black Talent, Front and Center: A Review of Afrocentricity
by Tyrone Simpson
- BFC/A Outreach: Embracing Our Communities
- "Real to Reel: Urban and Hip Hop Culture in American Film" Mini Festival
- In Memoriam: Beah Richards (1926-2000)
- Black Film Fact
- From the Archive
by Monique L. Threatt
Volume 15.1, Spring/Summer 2000 *
- Director's Notes: Same Yoke, Different Strokes
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Interview with Haile Gerima: Cultural Warrior
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson: His Own Story; A Book Review
by Crystal L. Keels
- An Up and Coming Director--Robert Hardy (Trois, 1999); A Movie Review
by B. Afena Cobham
- The Blood of Jesus: Timeless Black Values
by Mark Giles
- From the Archive
by Monique L. Threatt
- BFC/A Hosts Carl Franklin
- Milestones in Black Film History: The Lincoln Motion Picture Company (1916-1923)
by Michelle L. McClure
- Sankofa: "One Must Return to the Past in Order to Move Forward"; A Film Review
by Michelle L. McClure
- Black Film Fact
- On Our Bookshelf
- Advertisement: Genesis
- BFC/A's First International Film Festival "Films of the African Diaspora: Bridging Cultures through Film;" Highlights
Volume 14.2, Fall/Winter 1999
- Director's Notes: Re-Imagining Ourselves
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- A Conversation with Taye Diggs
by Audrey T. McCluskey
- Introducing Filmmaker: Malcolm D. Lee (Director/Screenwriter)
by Michelle L. McClure
- The Best Man: A Movie Review
by Afena Cobham
- Super Soul Flicks
- BFC/A Staff
- Milestones in Black Film History Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)
by Michelle L. McClure
- From the Archive
by Monique L. Threatt
- Black Film Fact
- Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies; A Book Review
by Ricky Von Johnson
- Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography; A Book Review
by Michelle L. McClure
- Upcoming Events: "Films of the African Diaspora," March 23-25, 2000
Volume 14.1, Spring/Summer 1999
- From the Director: In Retrospect
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Zora at the Society for Cinema Studies
- From the Archive
- Review: Angelou Depicts Family Renewal
by Aimee Hall
- We Say Goodbye to Ester Rolle (1920-1998)
- Review: Medusa Redux
by Jennifer Breen
- Amistad Colloquium Raises Questions of Critical Dialogue
by Jennifer Breen
- Commentary: Slavery on the Big Screen
by Walton Muyumba
- Review: The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract--Film and Literature, by Clyde R. Taylor
by Rebecca Wood
- Growing Up Gerard
by Tyrone Simpson
- Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video
Phyllis R. Klotman and Janet K. Cutler, eds.
- Commentary: Shafted Victory
by Tyrone Simpson
- Review: White Laager and Generations of Resistance
by Shane D. Graham
- Advertisement for White Laager, Generations of Resistance, Winnie Mandela, and Remember Mandela!
Volume 13.2, Fall/Winter 1998
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- An Interview with Lady Lane
by Jennifer Breen
- A Reader Responds: Eugene W. Jackson
- BFC/A Visiting Researcher: Charles Taylor
by Charles Taylor
- Jean-Marie Teno and Anti-Documentary
by Ray Privett
- The Politics and Pleasures of Teaching Black Media
by Jacqueline Stewart
- Film Review: Beloved
by Walton Muyumba
Volume 13.1, Spring/Summer 1998 *
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Hollywood's First Black Sounds: Hearts in Dixie
by Aimee Hall
- Amistad: A Vision for the Future
by Louise Bernard
- Paul Robeson, April 8, 1998 -- The Centennial of his Birth
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Reviews: A Festival of Cinema
by Radiclani Clytus
- Soldiers without Swords
by Aimee Hall
- Eve's Bayou
by Frances Gateward
Volume 12.2, Winter 1997-98
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Remembering Tupac Shakur
by Edward Pavlic
- The Pedogogy of Slavery: Understanding Literacy in Charles Burnett's Nightjohn
by Radiclani Clytus
- From the Archive: The Men of Montford Point
- New Resources Contextualize Black Filmmakers (Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diapora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity
by Audrey Foster; Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of
50 American Filmmakers by Spencer Moon)
by Aimee Hall
- Yvonne Welbon: Discussing Community and Culture on the I.U. Campus
Volume 12.1, Summer 1997
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Ayoka Chenzira: One Step at a Time
by Aimee Hall
- FESPACO 97: Celebrating African and Diasporic Film
by Zeinabu irene Davis
- FESPACO Nights in Michigan
by Eileen Julien
- Radiclani Clytus Reviews Get on the Bus directed by Spike Lee
- From the Archives: On Becoming a Women
- In Darkest Hollywood: Historicizing South African Cinema
by Aimee Hall
Volume 11.2, Winter/Spring 1996-97
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Julie Dash: Filmmaking within a Culture of Women
by Aimee Hall
- In Other News
by Monique Threatt
- Red Carnelian: Fostering Black Film
- From the Archives: Streetcorner Stories
by Susanne Schwibs
Volume 11.1, Spring/Summer 1996
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Norman Collection Inventoried
by Jill Moniz
- In Other News
- Gone but Never Forgotten: B. McQueen, M. Sinclair, R. Cash and T. Cade Bambara
by Gloria J. Gibson
- Dwight E. Brooks Reviews: Black Film/White Money
by Jesse A. Rhines
- Film Review by Andrea M. Morehead: Vintage: Family of Values
Volume 10.2, Winter 1995
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Bernie Casey visits Black Film Center/Archive
- Critic's Corner: Mother of the River
by Sergio Alejandro Mims
- A Conversation with Carmen Coustaut
by Andrea M. Morehead
Volume 10.1, Spring 1995
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- In Other News
- Madam Sul-Te-Wan and D.W. Griffith
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson
- Reel News
- Nelson Mandela: Prisoner to President
by Laura Crain
- Interview with Alfred Wiggins. December 11, 1994
by Richard Pierce
Volume 9.1, Summer 1994
- An Exciting Time for Black Cinema
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson
- BFC/A Monograph Now Available: In Touch with the Spirit: Black Religious and Musical Expression in American Cinema
- Black Cinema: A Celebration of Pan-African Film. Tisch School of the Arts, New York University 22-30 March 1994
by Louise Bernard
- Tributes:
- Jackie Shearer (1946-1993)
by Zeinabu irene Davis
- Marlon Riggs's Legacy of Simple Truth (1957-1994)
by Audrey Levasseur
Volume 8.1, Fall 1993
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis Klotman
- When Black Women Filmmakers Speak...Claudia Polley--Indiana's Black Woman Film Producer
by Jill Smith
- Docutainment Filmmaker: Michelle Parkerson
by Phyllis Klotman
- Camille Billops: Cultural Archaeologist
by Janet Cutler and Phyllis Klotman
- Discovery Through Cinema: An Interview with Carroll Parrot Blue
by Gloria Gibson-Hudson
- Reel News
- When Girlz N the Hood Become Reel Women: A Call for Alternative Images
by Breshaun Joyner
Volume 7.1, Spring/Summer 1993
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Filmmakers at IU
by Kern Jackson and Jill Smith
- Reel News
- Donations--Peter Davis collection, Donna Mungen, Indianapolis Public Library
- In Other News
- Conference Participants
- Revisiting the Spirit: Highlights of the BFC/A Summer Conference
by Tawanna R. Brown
Volume 6.1, Spring/Summer 1991 *
- From the Director-Fespaco 91
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Black Film: Mo' Better in the '90s
by Ed Guerrero
- 1990-1991 BFC/A Staff
- Reel News
- Invisible Men Made Visible: Review of Tongues Untied
by Bill Stanford Pincheon
- Excerpt from an interview with Les Blank
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson
Volume 5.1, Spring 1990 *
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- In Visible Colours: An International Women of Colour and Third World Women Film/Video Festival and Symposium
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson
- A New Life: Independent black filmmaking during the 1980's
by Sergio Alejandro Mims
- In Retrospect:Do the Right Thing
by Tracy Snipe
- Reel News
Volume 4.1, Spring 1989 *
- BFC/A Festival Highlights
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Spencer Williams
by Adrienne Lanier Seward
- A Year in Review
by Allen Johnson
- In Memoriam: Kathleen Collins Prettyman and Bill Gunn
Volume 3.1, Winter 1988 *
- BFC/A Festival Highlights
by Gloria J. Gibson
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Latin American Film
by Pat Aufderheide
- Reel News
- Michelle Parkerson Interview
by Gloria J. Gibson
- Round Midnight: A Critique
by K.L. Ware
Volume 2.1, Winter 1987 *
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- Tribute to Lorenzo Tucker
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- The Fifth Annual Blacklight Film Festival
by Sergio Mims
- BFC/A Plans Unique Festival
- In Perspective: Blacks and the Movies: "Hollywood's State of Disgrace"
by Mike Pearson
- Monsters, Aliens and Plants: Reincarnated Stereotypes in Hollywood Cinema
by Gloria J. Gibson
- From the Archives: Historical Perspective: Film Music of The Green Pastures and The Blood of Jesus
by Gloria J. Gibson
- In Review: Who Says "She's Gotta Have It?"
by Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg
- Fast Forward: Cinema Bytes
by Ronald R. Smith
Volume 1.2, Winter 1985 *
- Film Festival/Workshop Brings Together Artists, Audience, and Issues
by Sharon Dean and Frances Stubbs-Palmer
- In Focus: "There Are Many Stories to be Told and Many Battles to Begin"
by Gloria Gibson
- From the Director: Black Films Debut in China
by Phyllis R. Klotman
- From the Archives: MGM/UA Donates Films to Black Film Center/Archive
- From the Filmmakers: Kathleen Collins, Mikki Grant, Duane Jones, Larry Clark, William Greaves, Woodie King, Alile Sharon Larkin, Spencer Moon
- In Perspective: "The Gods Must Be Crazy" or "Apartheid in Technicolor"
by Barbara Moss
- In Perspective: The 4th Annual Blacklight Film Festival
by Sergio Mims
Volume 1.1, Summer 1985 *
- BFC/A Workshop/Festival Not Just Another Film Conference
by Sharon Dean
- In Focus: Woodie King Caps Festival with Tribute to Julian Mayfield
by Frances Stubbs-Palmer
- From the Director: A Letter Home
by Phyllis Klotman
- From the Archives:
The Norman Motion Picture Company Collection: A Real Find
by Gloria Gibson
- In Perspective: Are Minorities Changing Hollywood's Status Quo?
by Mike Pearson
- In Perspective: The 9th Pan-African Film Festival
by Manthia Diawara
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