The Black Camera staff is pleased to announce the publication of the new issue of Black Camera which features a lengthy interview with film composer and artist Renée Baker, eight peer-reviewed articles, an interview with filmmaker Afolabi Adesanya, a Close-Up on Contemporary Black Horror, as well as a new entry by Beti Ellerson in the African Women in Cinema Dossier. For more information on the contents of the new issue, please see the Table of Contents below:
Vol. 14, No. 2 Table of Contents:
Featured Interview
- "That's the Difference, I am Fully Engaged With Art": Renée Baker on the Practice of Scoring Silent Film and the Matter of "Race Movies"
o by Michael T. Martin
Articles
- Filming Social Death and the Fixed Position of Blackness: On L.A. Rebellion Director Julie Dash's Four Women
o by Rachal Burton
- Slavery and the Ambiguities of Diaspora in Haile Gerima's Sankofa
o by Xavier Lee
- Protesting on Screen: Black Protest Films in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter
o by Jeanelle K. Hope
- The Survival of Big-Screen Cinema in South Africa
o by David Max Brown
- Archiving Africa: Notes for the Contemporary African Filmmaker
o by Paul Ugor
- The Politics of Colonization in Ryan Coogler's Black Panther
o by Felisa Vergara Reynolds
- Vanishing Point: Chadwick Boseman's Body and the Still Image
o by Ashley Hendricks
- The Jew, the Arab, the Black: La Haine and the Structure of Anti-Black Violence
o by Roy Cherian
Interview
- Remembering the Past: A Conversation with Afolabi Adesanya as Film Exhibitor
o by Añulika Agina
CLOSE-UP: Contemporary Black Horror
- Introduction
o by Katherine Tartaglia
- Vanilla Nightmares and Urban Legends: The Racial Politics of Candyman (1992)
o by Joan Hawkins
- "There Existed an Addiction to Blood": Exhuming the Transtemporal Body
o by Jasper Lauderdale
- Get Out from the Horrors of Slavery
o by Delphine Letort
- The Work of Horror after Get Out
o by Catherine Zimmer
- Dossier: Spectacles of Anti-Black Violence and Contemporary Black Horror
o by Lauren McLeod Cramer & Catherine Zimmer
African Women in Cinema Dossier
- Exploring African Women's Cinematic Practice as Womanist Work
o by Beti Ellerson
Review
- Film Review: Dune (2021)
o by Fabio Bego