- Professional Notes and Research Resources
Recent and Upcoming Publications on Black Film
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25BA African Americans in Radio, Film, and TV Entertainers (Major Black Contributions from Emancipation to Civil Rights)
Linda J. Armstrong, Mason Crest Publishers, 2012 -
25BA Afterimages of Slavery: Essays on Appearances in Recent American Films, Literature, Television, and Other Media
Marlene D. Allen, McFarland, 2012 -
25BA Algerian National Cinema
Guy Austin, Manchester University Press, 2012 -
25BA Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature, and Film
Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie Van de Peer, I. B. Tauris, 2012 -
25BA Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
Gary W. Gallagher, The University of North Carolina Press, 2013 -
25BA Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South
Jason Sperb, University of Texas Press, 2012 -
25BA Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome (editors), Indiana University Press, 2013 -
25BA Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film
Paula J. Massood, Rutgers University Press, 2013 -
25BA Post-Soul Black Cinema: Discontinuities, Innovations, and Breakpoints, 1970-1995 (Studies in African American History and Culture)
William R. Grant, Routledge, 2012 -
25BA Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature
Tara T. Green, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 [End Page 173] -
25BA South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Litheko Modisane, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 -
25BA Spike Lee: The Eternal Maverick
Ray Shell, Arcadia Books, 2012 -
25BA Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity
Katrina Thompson, Indiana University Press, 2012
Upcoming Film Festivals
Sixth Africa World Documentary Film Festival (AWDFF)
February 6-September 10, 2013
http://www.africaworldfilmfestival.com/
Fourteenth Cinémas d'Afrique Festival
April 16-21, 2013
http://cinemasdafrique.asso.fr/wp/festival-actualites/
Caribbean Tales Film Festival 2013
April 2013
http://caribbeantales-events.com/
St. Barth Film Festival/Cinéma Caraïbe
April 2013
http://www.stbarthff.org
Black International Cinema Berlin
May 8-12, 2013
http://www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de/
Galway African Film Festival
May-June 2013
http://galwayafricanfilmfestival.org/ [End Page 174]
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF)
May-June 2013
http://hraff.org.au/
Indiana Black Expo Film Festival (IBE Film Festival)
Summer 2013
http://www.imamuseum.org/film/indiana-black-expo-film-festival
Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF)
Summer 2013
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/NBFF.html
Seventeenth American Black Film Festival (ABFF)
June 19-23, 2013
http://abff.com/
Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF)
June 2013
http://hbff.org/
Thirty-Fourth Durban International Film Festival (DIFF)
July/August 2013
http://www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/
Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF)
August 2013
http://www.mvaaff.com/
Zimbabwe International Film Festival
August/September 2013
http://www.zimfilmfest.co.zw/
Canadian Black Film Festival (CBFF)
September 2013
http://www.cbff.ca/
Montreal International Black Film Festival
September 2013
http://www.montrealblackfilm.com/index.php [End Page 175]
Africa in Motion Film Festival (AiM)
October/November 2013
http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/
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/ [End Page 176]
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 A. Clayton Library and Museum
4130 Overland Ave.
Culver City, CA 90230
Phone: (310) 202-1647
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