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  • Notes on Contributors

Olivier Barlet
Olivier Barlet is a member of the Syndicat français de la critique de cinema, a delegate for Africa at the Cannes Festival Critics Week, and a film correspondent for Africultures, Continental, and Afriscope. He is in charge of the Images plurielles collection on cinema for L'Harmattan Publishing House. His book entitled Les Cinémas d'Afrique noire: le regard en question, which won the Prix Art et Essai 1997 from the Centre national de la Cinématographie, has been translated into English under the title African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze (London: Zed Books), as well as into German and Italian. From 1997 to 2004, Barlet was chief editor of Africultures, an African cultural journal that features a paper edition and a website (www.africultures.com). He has also written numerous articles on African film for Africultures and in various journals and is a member of the African Federation of film critics (www.africine.org) through the French Afrimages association.

Jane Bryce
Jane Bryce is professor of African literature and cinema at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Born in Tanzania, she was educated there, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria. She has been a freelance journalist and fiction editor and has published in a range of academic journals and essay collections. She is also a creative writer and teacher, a film festival curator, and editor of Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing.

Terri Francis
Terri Francis is an associate professor in the Film Studies Program and the Department of African American Studies at Yale University. "Josephine Baker's Cinema," her study of Josephine Baker's significations in the American black press and beyond will be published by Indiana University Press in Fall 2013. Currently Professor Francis is at work on a new book entitled Jamaican Audiovisual Cultures, 1900-1972: A Primer. Further research concerns African American home movies.

Benjamin Grimwood
Benjamin Grimwood is currently seeking his master's degree in communication and culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests include: LGBTQ film and media studies; queer theory and film; [End Page 243] cinematic representations of sexual perversity and paraphilia; genre/gender performance and revisionism; and LGBTQ rhetoric and discourse. He received his BA in film studies from Vanderbilt University in 2010. His work has appeared in Transverse Journal. He would like to thank Andrew Rader, Karen Bowdre, and Harry M. Benshoff for reading previous drafts of his book review, clearing up his blind spots, and suggesting invaluable revisions.

Sarah Hamblin
Sarah Hamblin is a fifth-year PhD candidate at Michigan State University. Her research examines global art cinema and politics with a particular emphasis on the relationship between aesthetic form and radical politics. Her dissertation focuses specifically on negative affects—boredom, disgust, paranoia—as modes of resistance in 1960s and 1970s transnational revolutionary cinema and their impact on the possibilities of political cinema itself. Her previous publications include an entry on Abderrahmane Sissako's Rostov-Luanda in the forthcoming African volume of the Directory of World Cinema.

Leslie Houin
Leslie Houin is a graduate assistant at the Black Film Center/Archive. She is completing a master's degree in arts administration at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Delphine Letort
Delphine Letort (associate professor) teaches American civilization and film studies in the English Department of the Université du Maine (Le Mans, France). She has published Du film noir au néo-noir, mythes et stéréotypes de l'Amérique 1941-2008 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2010) and several articles focusing on issues of gender, race, and ideology in American films. Her latest work addresses the construction of activist films by such committed directors as Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee, Robert Greenwald, and Haile Gerima. She is currently working on a book project entitled Spike Lee's Documentaries: Constructing African American Memory, which will provide an in-depth study of Lee's nonfiction films, highlighting both the notion of race that informs the director's worldview and his idiosyncratic use of the documentary as a genre.

Michael T. Martin
Michael T. Martin is director of the Black Film Center/Archive and professor of communication...

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