Contents
Editor's Notes 1
CALL FOR CLOSE-UP SUBMISSIONS
The Harder They Come: The Legacy Continues 2
Still Got the News: Fifty Years Out on Finally Got the News 4
A Wide Shot: Expanding the Frame on Melvin Van Peebles 6

ARTICLES
Looking Back, Reeling Forward: Wanuri Kahiu's Rafiki 8
NJERI GITHIRE
Ava DuVernay, an Unexpected Independent Black Queen in 34
Hollywood?
CARLA TOQUET
Hieroglyphics of the Film: Stuplimity and Static in the Films of 58
Ja'Tovia Gary
KELLI MOORE
"Baby I'm a Star": Prince, Purple Rain, and the Audiovisual 77
Remaking of the Black Rock Star
JACK HAMILTON
Containing the Wonder Doctor: Sidney Poitier, the Cold War, 104
and Liberal Reformation
LUKE SAYERS
Superimposing Sex-Politics in Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet 124
Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
TRUNG T. LE

INTERVIEWS
Music to My Eyes: A Conversation with Alain Gomis 147
GUILLAUME COLY
Screening Intimacy, Vulnerability, and Sensitivity Between 159
Black Men: An Interview with Rodney Evans
CHARLES I. NERO

CLOSE-UP: Contemporary Cuban Cinema
Introduction 174
AISHA Z. CORT
Memories of Overdevelopment: Subverting the Cuban 180
Revolutionary Filmic Archive
ENRIQUE GONZÁLEZ-CONTY
Invisible Presences: The Aesthetics of Damián Sainz in Batería 200
ANASTASIA VALECCE
Presencias invisibles: la estética de Damián Sainz en Batería 216
ANASTASIA VALECCE
Afro-Cuban Histories through a Fractured Lens: Gloria 233
Rolando's Aesthetic Approach to the Decolonial Imaginary in
Raíces de mi corazón and 1912, Voces para un silencio
PATRICK CROWLEY
The Life and Work of Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando: 255
Conversations with Magia López and Catherine Murphy
MAGIA LÓPEZ & CATHERINE MURPHY

CLOSE-UP: Moonlight
Introduction: Transforming Space in the New Black Hollywood: 280
Movement and Memory in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight
DAVID C. WALL
"Can't Be No Worse out Here": Radical Queer Black Ecologies 284
in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight
HANNAH SKJELLUM
Barry Jenkins and Moonlight in Miami: Home Girls Respond 307
AUDREY THOMAS MCCLUSKEY

OLIVIER BARLET DOSSIER
Les salles de cinéma en Afrique sud saharienne francophone 313
(1926-1980) / Movie Theaters in French-Speaking Africa South
of the Sahara (1926-1980), by Claude Forest: A Welcomed and
Essential Historical Work
OLIVIER BARLET
FESPACO 2021: Feature Films, a Return to the Future 320
OLIVIER BARLET

AFRICAN WOMEN IN CINEMA DOSSIER
La Noire de..., La Passante and Many Others: Framing 334
Cinematic Representations of Afro-Descendant Women,
Identity, and Positionality in France
BETI ELLERSON

PROFESSIONAL NOTES AND RESEARCH RESOURCES 349
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 353