Table of Contents
Articles
Strictly a Laughing Matter?: The Significance of the Blaxploitation Movement and Black Dynamite as Parody
-Novotny Lawrence
Re-Reading Birth of a Nation: European Contexts and the War Film
-Jonathan Wright
Close-Up: The New York Scene
Introduction: A Scene of New Worlds
-Nicholas Forster and Michele Prettyman
Controlling the World Within the Frame: Julie Dash and Ayoka Chenzira Reflect on New York and Filmmaking
- Michele Prettyman
Art on Her Mind: The Making of Kathleen Collins's Cinema of Interiority
-Hayley O'Malley
Witnessing One Transformation, Charting Another: The Various Lives of Paul Carter Harrison
-Nicholas Forster
VAMP 94 (From: Don't Woke Him, Let Him Slept: A Vamp on the American Wet Dream)
-Paul Carter Harrison
Talent X Relationships/Knowledge: An Interview with Roy Campanella II
-Nicholas Forster
On Becoming Me: 1980s NYC Arts and Culture Through a Queer Lens
-Thomas Allen Harris
Capture and Release: Curating and Exhibiting the East Coast Independent Black Film Movement, 1968-1992
-Michelle Materre
Close-Up: Ava DuVernay's Selma (2014)
Introduction: The Film and History of Selma, Alabama, 1965
-Lamont H. Yeakey
Seen and Heard: Negotiating the Black Female Ethos in Selma
-David G. Holmes
The Historical Record and the American Imaginary: Adapting History in Selma
-Delphine Letort
Illuminating Shadowed Histories: Centering Black Women's Activism in Selma
-Danyelle Greene