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  • Professional Notes and Research Resources

Recent Publications on Black Film

  • ▸ BadAzz Mofo’s Book of BLAXPLOITATION, Volume One

    David Walker, Drapetomedia, 2009

  • ▸ Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia

    Jeanette Covington, Lexington Books, 2010

  • ▸ Guidelines for Critiquing the Black Image in the Media, The: Part 1. The Film Industry

    J. Thompson, CreateSpace, 2010

  • ▸ Hollywood’s African American Films: The Transition to Sound

    Ryan Jay Friedman, Rutgers University Press, 2011

  • ▸ Postnationalist African Cinemas

    Alexie Tcheuyap, Manchester University Press, 2011

  • ▸ Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics

    Akin Adesokan, Indiana University Press, 2011

  • ▸ Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the

  • ▸ Cinematic

    David A. Gerstner, University of Illinois Press, 2011

  • ▸ Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation

    Christopher Sieving, Wesleyan, 2011

  • ▸ Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes

    Adilifu Nama, University of Texas Press, 2011

  • ▸ Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture

    Jonathan Munby, University of Chicago Press, 2011

  • ▸ Visual Difference

    Elizabeth Heffelfinger and Laura Wright, Peter Lang, 2010 [End Page 181]

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/ [End Page 182]

  • 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 [End Page 183]

  • 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

Online Resources

  • ▸. African Americans in Motion Pictures, the Past and Present (Long Island University): http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/ african/movies.htm

  • ▸. African Americans in the Movies, a Bibliography of Materials (UC Berkeley): http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanAmBib.html

  • ▸. ArtMattan Productions: http://www.africanfilm.com/

  • ▸. Black Film Research Online (University of Chicago): http://bfro.uchicago.edu/

  • ▸. Black Movie Awards: http://www.blackmovieawards.com

  • ▸. Cinemas et Audiovisuels Africains: http://www.clapnoir.org/

  • ▸. Cuba Edu Films: http://www.cubaedufilms.com/

  • ▸. Library of Congress—Black Film Paper Print Collection: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/blckfilm.html

  • ▸. National Film and Video Foundation—South Africa: http://www.nfvf.co.za/ [End Page 184]

Upcoming Film Festivals

  • Africa in Motion

  • October 27–November 6, 2011

  • http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk

The festival celebrates and explores the multiplicity of forms, themes...

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