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Table of Contents
Call for Close-Up Submissions
Selma: The Historical Record and the American Imaginary
Forging a New Path: Plurality, Social Change, and Innovation in Contemporary Senegalese Cinema
Articles
Two Screenplays by Charles Burnett: Bless Their Little Hearts (1984) and Man in a Basket (2003)
- James Naremore
Backup Singers, Celebrity Culture, and Civil Rights: Racializing Space and Spatializing Race in 20 Feet from Stardom
- David Scott Diffrient
Queering The Mammy: New Queer Cinema's Version of an American Institution in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman
-Clitha Mason
Close-Up: #BlackLivesMatter
Introduction: #BlackLivesMatter and the Mediatic Lives of a Movement
- Charles "Chip" P. Linscott
No Medicine for Melancholy: Cinema of Loss and Mourning in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter
-Michelle Prettyman Beverly
Gallery: All Lives (Don't) Matter: The Internet Meets Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism
- Charles "Chip" P. Linscott
Dreams are colder than Death and the Gathering of Black Sociality
- Alessandra Raengo
Close-Up: Hip-Hop Cinema
Introduction: Hip-Hop Cinema as a Lens of Contemporary Black Realities
- Regina N. Bradley
From Boys to Men: Hip-Hop, Hood Films, and the Performance of Contemporary Black Masculinity
- Robin M. Boylorn
U, (New) Black(?) Maybe: Nostalgia and Amnesia in Dope
- I. Augustus Durham
"Fight the Power": Hip-Hop and Civil Unrest in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
- Casarae L. Gibson
"True to the Game:" Straight Outta Compton's Affirmation of White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
- Adam Haupt
"We Don't Die, We Multiply": Bebe's Kids, Hip-Hop Aesthetics, and Black Feature Animation
- Peter C. Kunze
"And You Know This, Man!" Love, Humor, and Masculinity in Friday
- Brandon J. Manning
Jay Z's American Gangster
- Kenton Rambsy
Africultures Dossier
LArbre sans fruit / The Fruitless Tree by Aīcha Elhadj Macky:
Woman among Mothers
- Olivier Barlet
La Permanence / On Call by Alice Diop
- Olivier Barlet
African Women in Cinema Dossier
Traveling Gazes: Global Imaginaries in the Transcontinental, Transnational, Exilic, Migration and Diasporic Cinematic Experiences of African Women
- Beti Ellerson
