Table of Contents
Call for Close-Up Submissions
Hip-hop Cinema
Selma: The Historical Record and the American Imaginary
Articles
Phyllis Klotman (1924-2015): A Memorial Tribute
The Local Film Sensation in Ethiopia: Aesthetic Comparisons with African Cinema and Alternative Experiences
- Michael W. Thomas
Black and Cuba: Liberation, African American Studies, and the Tools of Third Cinema
- Robin Hayes
Interview
"I Just Wanted My Figures to Move": The Filmmaking Practice of Mike Henderson
- Michael T. Martin
Close-Up: Fugitivity and the Filmic Imagination
Introduction
- James Edward Ford III
"The Brown Bag of Miscellany": Zora Neale Hurston and the Practice of Overexposure
- Autumn Womack
Social Death and Narrative Aporia in 12 Years a Slave
- Frank B. Wilderson III
Tip Toes and River Rolls: Overhearing Enslavement
- Shana L. Redmond
Reinventing Capacity: Black Femininity's Lyrical Surplus and the Cinematic Limits of 12 Years a Slave
- Rizvana Bradley
Bastard Allegories: Black British Independent Cinema
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David Marriott
Blackness and Legend
- James Edward Ford III
On the Chronopolitics of Black Social Life; or, How Mister Winfield "Sends Go"
- M. Shadee Malaklou
Documents
Statement by African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video, presented at FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1991
Book Reviews
Barbara Tepa Lupack, Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking
- Paul Hansom
Zélie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television
- Isabelle Le Corff
Gerald Sim, The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema
- Geoffrey Luurs