Professional Notes and Research Resources

Recent Publications on Black Film

• African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960

  Charlene Regester, Indiana University Press, 2010

• African American Theater Buildings: An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900–1955

  Eric Ledell Smith, McFarland & Company, 2010

• African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics

  Manthia Diawara, Prestel USA, 2010

• An Actor and a Gentleman

  Louis Gossett Jr. and Phyllis Karas, Wiley, 2010

• Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles

  Daniel Widener, Duke University Press, 2010

• Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War

  Gary W. Gallagher, University of North Carolina Press, 2010

• Cinema in a Democratic South Africa: The Race for Representation

  Lucia Saks, Indiana University Press, 2010

• Cinema in an Age of Terror: North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History

  Michael F. O’Riley, University of Nebraska Press, 2010

• Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha

  Melvin Van Peebles, Akashic Books, 2009

• Foxy: My Life in Three Acts

  Pam Grier and Andrea Cagan, Grand Central Publishing, 2010

• Halle Berry: A Biography

  Melissa Ewey Johnson, Greenwood, 2009

• Money Shot: The Wild Nights and Lonely Days Inside the Black Porn Industry

  Lawrence C. Ross Jr., Running Press, 2007

• My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story

  Bobby Blake, Running Press, 2008

• Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from World War II to the Present: The Orientalist Buddy Film

  Brian Locke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

• Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

  Frank Wilderson III, Duke University Press, 2010

• Representations of American Slavery in Post–Civil Rights Fiction and Film: How Literature Shapes Politics

  Camilla E. Dacey-Groth and Simon Wendt, Edwin Mellen Press, 2009

• Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

  Brian Larkin, Duke University Press, 2008

• Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

  James Gavin, Atria, 2010

• Studying Tsoti

  Judith Gunn, Auteur, 2009

Black Film Research Resources

• Library of Congress—Motion Picture & Television Reading Room

  101 Independence Ave. SE

  James Madison Building, LM 336

  Washington, DC 20540-4690

  Phone: (202) 707-8572

  Fax: (202) 707-2371

  http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/

• New York Public Library—Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  515 Malcolm X Boulevard

  New York, NY 10037-1801

  Phone: (212) 491-2236

  E-mail: scgenref@nypl.org

  http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

• Southern Methodist University—The Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection

  Dallas, TX 75205

  Phone: (214) 768-2000

  http://www.smu.edu/blackfilms/

• UCLA Film and Television Archive

  302 East Melnitz

  Box 951323

  Los Angeles, CA 90095-1323

  Phone: (310) 206-5388

  E-mail: arsc@ucla.edu

  http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/

• USC Cinema/Television Library

  Doheny Memorial Library 3550

  Trousdale Parkway University Park Campus

  Los Angeles, CA 90089-0185

  Phone: (213) 740-3994

  E-mail: cin@usc.edu

  http://www.usc.edu/libraries/locations/cinema_tv/

• Mayme Clayton Library Museum & Cultural Center Film Archives

  Western States Black Research and Educational Center

  3617 Montclair Street

  Los Angeles, CA 90018-2442

  Phone: (626) 794-4677

  E-mail: aclayton@wsbrec.org

  http://www.wsbrec.org/collection/film.html

• Margaret Herrick Library

  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  333 South La Cienega Blvd.

  Beverly Hills, CA 90211

  http://www.oscars.org/library/index.html

• Yale University—Film Study Center

  53 Wall Street, Room B17

  New Haven, CT 06511

  Phone: (203) 432-0148

  Fax: (203) 432-4079

  http://www.yale.edu/filmstudy/

• Smithsonian—Archives Center

  National Museum of American History

  12th, 14th & Constitution Avenue

  Washington, DC 20560-0601

  Phone: (202) 633-3270

  TDD: (202) 357-1729

  Fax: (202) 786-2453

  E-mail: archivescenter@si.edu

• Washington University Film & Media Archive

  One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1061

  St. Louis, MO 63130

  Phone: (314) 935-8679

  Fax: (314) 935-6362

  E-mail: spec@wumail.wustl.edu

• La Cinematheque Africaine

  01 BP 2505 Ouagadougou

  Burkina Faso

  Phone: 226 30 75 38

  Fax: 226 31 25 09

  E-mail: sg@fespaco.festival.bf

• FESPACO

  01 BP 2505 Ouagadougou 01

  Burkina Faso

  Phone: 226 30 75 38

  Fax: 226 31 25 09

  E-mail: sg@fespaco.bf

  www.fespaco.bf

• Africultures

  26110 Les Pilles

  France

  www.africultures.com [End...