Table of Contents

Call for Close-Up Submissions
- Hip-hop Cinema
- Selma: The Historical Record and the American Imaginary

Articles
- Phyllis Klotman (1924-2015): A Memorial Tribute
- The Local Film Sensation in Ethiopia: Aesthetic Comparisons with African Cinema and Alternative Experiences, Michael W. Thomas.
- Black and Cuba: Liberation, African American Studies, and the Tools of Third Cinema, Robin Hayes.

Interview
- "I Just Wanted My Figures to Move": The Filmmaking Practice of Mike Henderson, Michael T. Martin

Gallery
- "Making Art, Making Life: The Paintings of Mike Henderson": The Filmmaking Practice of Mike Henderson, Michael T. Martin

Close-Up: Fugitivity and the Filmic Imagination
- Introduction, James Edward Ford III
- "The Brown Bag of Miscellany": Zora Neale Hurston and the Practice of Overexposure, Autumn Womack
- Social Death and Narrative Aporia in 12 Years a Slave, Frank B. Wilderson III
- Tip Toes and River Rolls: Overhearing Enslavement, Shana L. Redmond
- Reinventing Capacity: Black Femininity's Lyrical Surplus and the Cinematic Limits of 12 Years a Slave, Rizvana Bradley
- Bastard Allegories: Black British Independent Cinema, David Marriott
- Blackness and Legend, James Edward Ford III
- On the Chronopolitics of Black Social Life; or, How Mister Winfield "Sends Go", M. Shadee Malaklou

Africultures Dossier
- FESPACO 2015: After the Transition, What Next?, Olivier Barlet

African Women in Cinema Dossier
- Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part One, Beti Ellerson

African Women in Cinema Dossier
- Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part One, Beti Ellerson

Documents
- Statement by African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video, presented at FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1991

Book Reviews
- Barbara Tepa Lupack, Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking, Paul Hansom
- Zélie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television, Isabelle Le Corff
- Gerald Sim, The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema, Geoffrey Luurs

Archival Spotlight
- The Baraka Film Archive: The Lost, Unmade, and Unseen Film Work of LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, Whitney Strub