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Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 2025

Black Film Center & Archive Dossier

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Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 2024

Close-Up: Reclaiming Blaxploitation in the Global Diaspora

Close-Up: Expanding the Frame on Melvin Van Peebles

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2024. Features stills from Finally Got the News and lists Fifty Years of Finally Got the News and Women in TransAfrican Film as key topics.

Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2024

Close-Up: Finally got the news...

Close-Up: The Africas/Diasporas of Women

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Fall 2023.

Vol. 15, No. 1, Fall 2023

Close-Up: The Harder They Come

Close-Up: Get Out

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2023.

Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 2023

Featured Interview with Film Composer Renee Baker

Close-Up: Contemporary Black Horror

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Fall 2022. The cover features a film still from Moonlight showing the dark silhouette of a young boy standing on a twilight beach, with palm trees in the background.

Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 2022

Close-Up: Moonlight

Close-Up: Contemporary Cuban Cinema

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2022. The title is "BLACK CAMERA" over a large, central black and white photograph of Senegalese filmmaker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra holding a film camera and wearing a bucket hat

Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 2022

Close-Up: BlacKkKlansman

Close-Up: Paulin S. Vieyra

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A book or journal cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 13, Number 1, Summer 2021, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 13, No. 1, Fall 2021

African Cinema: The Documentary Record: Statements, Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestos

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2021, titled "AFRICAN CINEMA: MANIFESTO & PRACTICE FOR CULTURAL DECOLONIZATION PART 2." The cover features four black and white photos of filmmakers holding cinema cameras.

Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2021

African Cinema: Colonial Antededents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Fall 2020 issue titled 'African Cinema: Manifesto & Practice for Cultural Decolonization, Part I: FESPACO: Formation, Evolution, Challenges,' featuring artwork of a smiling woman with a film reel graphic and the text 'FESPACO' and 'Du 23 Février au 2 Mars 1985

Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2020

African Cinema: FESPACO: Formation, Evolution, Challenges

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A photo of a man with black curly hair and a black beard sitting with a black binder in his hand with an office setting in the background.

Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 2020

In Focus: African & Black Diasporic Films

Interview with Filmmaker Boots Riley

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A journal cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2019, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 11, No. 1, Fall 2019

Close-Up: Caribbean Cinama as Cross-Border Dialogue

Close-Up: Jay-Z

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A magazine cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2019, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2019

Close Up: The New York Scene

Close-Up: Selma

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A journal cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 2018, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2018

Close-Up: Claire Denis on the Postcolony Colony

Close-Up: Mediated Contests: Sports, Race, and the Power of Narrative

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2018. The cover features a color photograph of four Black women in dark clothing and head wraps, gathered in a group outdoors

Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 2018

Chuck Kleinhans 1942-2017: A Tribute

Close-Up: Black Images Matter

Close-Up: South African Cinema

Close-Up: Senegalese Cinema

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Fall 2017. The cover features a stylized illustration in black, red, and tan, showing a central figure in a black hat with hands raised, within an abstract spiral graphic. The issue focus is "Close-Up: Beyoncé: Media and Cultural Icon

Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2017

Close-Up: Beyoncé: Media and Cultural Icon

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A magazine cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2017, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2017

Close-Up: #BlackLivesMatter

Close-Up: Hip-Hop Cinema

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A book or journal cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 8, Number 1, Fall 2016, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 2016

Interview with Kevin Willmott

Close-Up: Black Visual Culture

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A magazine cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2016, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 2016

Close-Up: Django Unchained

Close-Up: The Marginalization of African Media Studies

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Fall 2015. The cover features a dramatic painting, possibly by Mike Henderson, of a light-skinned, injured figure being surrounded by dark-skinned figures in black and white striped uniforms with stylized red mouths

Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 2015

A Memorial Tribute to Phyllis Klotman

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2015. The cover features a dramatic photograph of three nude Black male figures in a dark setting, holding or resting with traditional masks. The issue includes content on William Greaves and Sexuality and Gender in Black Film, part 2.

Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2015

Homage to William Greaves

John Akomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Fall 2014. The cover features a stark, mixed-media painting primarily in red and black, showing fragmented faces, eyes, and French text fragments, with a focus on Postcolonial Filmmaking and a Conversation with Ava DuVernay

Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall 2014

Close-Up: Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countries

Special Feature: A Conversation with Ava DuVernay

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2014. The cover features the poster image for the film Dazzling Mirage by Tunde Kelani, showing a statue's face in the foreground of a bright orange desert landscape with dunes and palm trees. The issue focuses on NOLLYWOOD.

Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2014

Close-Up: Nollywood - A Worldly Creative Practice

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A magazine cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 5, Number 1, Fall 2013, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2013

Close-Up: Afrosurrealism

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A magazine cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 2013, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2013

Close-Up: Teza

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Winter 2013. The cover features an expressive painting of a Black woman holding a bundled infant against an urban background.

Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 2012

Close-Up: Precious

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A book or journal cover for "BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal," specifically Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2012, THE NEW SERIES.

Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2012

Close-Up: Nothing But a Man

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Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 2011

Stanley Nelson on Freedom Riders

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Spring 2011. The cover features a stylized painting of a Black woman in blues and purples, with a focus on the Special Issue: Beyond Normative: Sexuality and Eroticism in Black Film, Cinema, and Video

Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2011

Beyond Normative: Sexuality and Eroticism in Black Film, Cinema, and Video

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Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2010

Performing Race in the Art of Jefferson Pinder

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Summer 2010. The cover features the film poster for Les Feux de Mansaré, showing a person's face framed by their hands in a director's frame, with a small fire glowing below.

Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2010

African Filmmakers' New Strategies

Five Decades of African Film

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Cover of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Winter 2009. The cover features a vintage movie poster for the film "The Bronze Venus," which stars Lena Horne in a glamorous, full-length pose in a light-colored gown.

Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2009

The Inaugural Issue

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Past Issues

Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 2025

Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 2024

Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2024

Vol. 15, No. 1, Fall 2023

Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 2023

Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 2022

Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 2022

Vol. 13, No. 1, Fall 2021

Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2021

Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall 2020

Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 2020

Vol. 11, No. 1, Fall 2019

Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2019

Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2018

Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 2018

Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2017

Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2017

Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 2016

Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 2016

Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 2015

Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2015

Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall 2014

Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2014

Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2013

Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2013

Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 2012

Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2012

Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 2011

Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2011

Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2010

Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2010

Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2009

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