Table of Contents
Call for Close-Up Submissions
Selma: The Historical Record and the American Imaginary
Django Unchained
- Joi Carr
Articles
�This Film Is a Rebellion!�: Filmmaker, Actor, Black Journal Producer, and Political Activist William Greaves (1926�2014)
- Noelle Griffis
John Kitzmiller, Euro-American Difference, and the Cinema of the West
- Saverio Giovacchini
Close-Up: John Akomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective
Introduction: The Muses of the Black Audio Film Collective and Smoking Dogs Films
-Matthias De Groof and St�phane Symons
Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective
- John Akomfrah
Signs of Struggle, Songs of Sorrow: Notes on the Politics of Uncertainty in the Films of John Akomfrah
-Stoffel Debuysere
Becoming Black Audio: An Interview with John Akomfrah and Trevor Matheson
-Kobena Mercer
Memory, Authenticity, and (the Absence of) Ruins: Resonances between Werner Herzog
and John Akomfrah
- Manuela Ribeiro Sanches
Monad, Database, Remix: Manners of Unfolding in The Last Angel of History
- Laura U. Marks
The Nine Muses: Recalibrating Migratory Aesthetics
-Kass Banning
Memory and Creative Forgetfulness in The Nine Muses
-St�phane Symons and Matthias De Groof
Close-Up Gallery
L�Homme de dos: The Politics of the Rear-view Figure in the films of John Akomfrah
- Jeroen Verbeeck
Close-Up: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Black Films and New Media
Introduction
-L.H. Stallings
Searching for the Erotic: Boundaries of Male Same-sex Desire in Caribbean Film
- Angelique V. Nixon
The Essential I/Eye in We: A Black TransFeminist Approach to Ethnographic Film
-Kai M. Green
Between Women TV: Toward the Mainstreaming of Black Lesbian Masculinity and Black Queer Women in Community
-Marlon Rachquel Moore
Africultures Dossier
Cannes 2014: Something New in the Air from Africa?
Ethiopian Cinema Today
- Olivier Barlet
African Women in Cinema Dossier
Boukary Sawadogo Discusses His Research: Three Marginal Figures in the Cinemas of Francophone West Africa�the Mad Person, the Homosexual, and the Woman
- Beti Ellerson
Book Reviews
Mireille Miller-Young, A Taste of Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography
Jennifer Nash, The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography
-L.H. Stallings
Alice Maurice, The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema
-Nicholas Forster
Carmela Garritano,African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History
-Lindsey Green-Simms