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Indiana University Bloomington

Faculty |Michael T. Martin

Professor, Communication and Culture and American StudiesMichael T. Martin
Adjunct Professor, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Email: martinmt@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-6427
Office: 209

Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979
Ed.M., Columbia University, 1972
M.A., Columbia University, 1971
B.A., City College, City University of New York (CUNY), 1970

Courses Recently Taught
AAAD-A 330 African American Cinematic Experience
AAAD-A 400 Cinemas of the Black Diaspora
AAAD-A 400/590 Third World Cinemas
AAAD-A 542 Postcolonial Metropolitan Cinemas

Research Areas:

Diasporic and émigré formations, transnational migration, diasporic and postcolonial film

Works in Progress:

Caribbean Cinemas: Evolution, Articulations, Transnationality (book length project under contract with Indiana University Press, due 2012)
History Betrayed: Gillo Pontecorvo’s Cinema of Decolonization (book length project under contract with Wayne State University Press, due 2013)

Recent Publications:

Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall, “The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film,”  A Companion to the Historical Film, Robert A. Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulesu, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp. 445-467.

“Documenting Modern Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano,” Camera Obscura 24.2 (2010): 161-172.

“’I Do Exist’: From ‘Black Insurgent’ to Negotiating the Hollywood Divide—A Conversation with Julie Dash,” Cinema Journal 49.2 (2010): 1-16.

“’Podium for the Truth’? Reading Slavery and the Neocolonial Project in the Historical Film: Queimada! and Sankofa in Counterpoint,” Third Text 23.6 (2009): 717-731.

(with David Wall) “’Where are you from?’: Performing Race in the Art of Jefferson Pinder,” Black Camera 2.1 (2010): 72-105.

(with Marissa Moorman) “Imagining Angola in Luanda with Ondjaki,” Black Camera 1.2 (2010): 38-62.

“Joseph Gai Ramaka: ‘I am not a filmmaker engage. I am an ordinary citizen engage,” Research in African Literatures 40.3 (2009): 206-219.

“Charles Burnett—Consummate Cinèaste,” Black Camera 1.1 (2009): 143-170.

(with Marilyn Yaquinto) Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow and Their Legacies (Duke University Press, 2007).

“Mexican Cinema and the ‘Generation of the 1990s Filmmakers: A Conversation with
Francisco Athié,” Framework 45.1 (2004): 115-128.

“On the Cusp of Postmodernity: Lolo and Fibra Optica in Contemporary Mexican Cinema,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 12.2 (2003): 191-214.

Awards and Honors