Black Camera: An International Journal
An international scholarly film journal, Black Camera constitutes a platform for the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience in the world.
- It privileges neglected and understudied sites of black filmmaking, and features essays that engage film in social as well as political contexts and in relation to historical and globalizing processes.
- The journal includes interviews with emerging and prominent filmmakers, editorials, book and film reviews; documents archival notes and research reports; and addresses a wide range of genres—including documentary, experimental films, animation, musicals, and comedy.
- The journal devotes issues or sections of issues to national cinemas as well as to independent, marginal, and oppositional films and other cinematic formations.
- Our project is to document, encourage, and invigorate research and study of black filmmaking as an art form, cultural and political practice, and historical activity; engage in conversation with cinematic traditions, movements, and practices in world cinema; stimulate new, and refresh traditional, theoretical and analytical perspectives; privilege the study of new forms of cinematic practice and production; disseminate research to enhance the teaching of black film; and serve as a repository and showcase for black artistic and intellectual achievement.
- Black Camera also constitutes a forum to debate and challenge received and ensconced views and assumptions about filmmaking in the African diaspora, where new, evolving, and long-standing cinematic formations and traditions are in play.
- Our readership is you: scholar/researchers, media professionals and cineastes, and the public interested generally in cultural production and visual forms of representation.