Table of Contents
Call for Close-Up Submissions
Beyoncé: Media and Cultural Icon
Forging a New Path: Plurality, Social Change, and Innovation in Contemporary Senegalese Cinema
Selma: The Historical Record and the American Imaginary
Articles
Spike Lee's Documentaries: The Creative Art of Making Nonfiction
- Delphine Letort
Addressing the "Negro Problem": Rethinking the Coon and the Mammy in King of the Zombies and Revenge of the Zombies
- Toni Pressley-Sanon
Every Nigger Is a Star: Reimagining Blackness from Post-Civil Rights America to the Postindependence Caribbean
- Erica Moiah James
Benoît Ramampy (1947-1996): A Life Dedicated to Cinema
- Karine Blanchon
Interview
On Practicing an Independent African American Cinema: An Interview with Kevin Willmott
- DeWitt Douglas Kilgore
Close-Up: Black Film and Black Visual Culture
Introduction
- Keith Harris
"Black Is ..." and That's the Beauty of It: Ten Propositions Concerning the Visible and the Visual, in Consideration of Black Cinema and Black Visual Culture
- Keith Harris
Building the Black (Universal) Archive and the Architecture of Black Cinema
- Lauren McLeod Cramer
Conscious Quiet as a Mode of Black Visual Culture
- Lokeilani Kaimana
B.A.D. (Black Abstraction Dreaming): A Conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson
- Michael Boyce Gillespie
In a (Not So) Silent Way: Listening Past Black Visuality in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
- Charles "Chip" P. Linscott
Blackness and the Image of Motility: A Suspenseful Critique
- Alessandra Raengo
Africultures Dossier
"Coming to Terms with the Past Will Allow One to Continue": Interview with Leyla Bouzid about As I Open My Eyes
- Olivier Barlet
"I Am Not Interested in Denouncing Polygamy: My Film Goes Beyond That": Interview with Angèle Diabang about So Long a Letter
- Olivier Barlet
"It Is Up to Us to Work on Our Own Complexes": An Interview with Alice Diop
- Olivier Barlet
African Women in Cinema Dossier
African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political
- Beti Ellerson
Book Reviews
Ashley Clark, Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled
-Christopher Lloyd
Allyson Nadia Field, Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
- Julie Lavelle
Joseph Gugler, Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique
- Sheila Petty
Montré Aza Missouri, Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex, and Afro-Religiosity
- Maria Abegunde
Litheko Modesane, South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
- Jordache Ellapen