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Black Camera: Publication Announcement
In conjunction with Indiana University Press, the Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) at Indiana University, Bloomington is pleased to announce the publication of Black Camera, an academic and peer reviewed international journal.
Devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience, Black Camera will be published bi-annually and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States.
It will feature essays and interviews which engage film in social as well as political context and in relation to historical and economic forces that bear on the reception, distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.
The journal also comprises research and archival notes, editorials, reports, and book and film reviews and addresses a wide range of genres - including documentary, experimental film and video, diasporic cinema, animation, musicals, comedy, etc.
Black Camera will provide a critical forum, challenging received and ensconced views and assumptions about the traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, where new and longstanding cinematic formations are in play. And it will especially appeal to film scholar/researchers, media professionals, and more generally cineastes and others in the public and academy concerned with visual culture and cultural production.
While its scope is interdisciplinary and inclusive of all of the African diaspora, the journal will devote future issues or "special sections" of issues to national cinemas, as well as independent, marginal, and oppositional films and cinematic formations. Interviews with emerging and prominent filmmakers will also be regularly featured.
Dr. Michael Martin, Director of the Black Film Center/Archive, is the primary editor of this publication. The editor gratefully acknowledges the support of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Direct questions and submissions to Mary K. Huelsbeck
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