Call for Submissions

In conjunction with Indiana University Press, the Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) at Indiana University Bloomington publishes Black Camera, an academic and peer-reviewed international journal.

Devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience, Black Camera is published biannually and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States.

It features essays and interviews that engage film in social as well as political contexts and in relation to historical and economic forces that bear on the reception, distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.

The journal also comprises research and archival notes, editorials, reports, and book and film reviews, and addresses a wide range of genres, including documentary, experimental film and video, diasporic cinema, animation, musicals, comedy, and so on.

The Editor invites submissions by prospective contributors relevant to the following areas:

1. ▶. Reconsideration of “classic” black films

2. ▶. Black (and other related postcolonial and Third World) programmatic film statements and manifestos

3. ▶. Black sexuality in film

4. ▶. Black filmmaking and cinematic formations in Europe

5. ▶. Archival film documents

6. ▶. Slavery and anticolonial struggles in the historical film

7. ▶. Lusophone and francophone African cinemas

8. ▶. Sub-Saharan African cinema

9. ▶. Cinemas of the Maghreb

10. ▶. Black Hollywood

11. ▶. Black animation

12. ▶. Women filmmakers of the African diaspora

13. ▶. Caribbean cinemas

14. ▶. Reception studies

15. ▶. Film directors, screenwriters, actors

16. ▶. Black independent filmmaking

17. ▶. Other moving image media (television, new media, etc.)

The Editor gratefully acknowledges the support of the Department of Communication and Culture and the College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington.

Please direct questions and submissions to

blackcam@indiana.edu
(812) 856-7664

Black Camera
c/o Black Film Center/Archive
Wells Library, Room 044
1320 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

1. ▶. Feature articles, essays, and interviews can be 8,000–10,000 words.

2. ▶. Commentaries can be 1,000–2,000 words.

3. ▶. Book and film reviews can be 500–1,500 words (exceptions will be considered for review essays).

4. ▶. All submissions should be double-spaced, use 12-point Times New Roman font, and have page numbers in the upper right corner.

5. ▶. Authors must provide any illustrations and captions and are responsible for obtaining all permissions required to publish an illustration. Images should be submitted as JPG, TIF, or EPS files, ideally of at least 300 pixels per inch.

6. ▶. Authors submitting images should be sure to indicate within the text where the image should be placed by inserting the designation “(fig. 1),” “(fig. 2),” etc. at the end of the sentence referencing the image. Please also provide any caption text in a separate document.

7. ▶. Submissions should be sent electronically by e-mail attachment as a Microsoft Word document. Please complete and include the Black Camera Contributor form with any submission: www.indiana.edu/~blackcam/call/#guidelines

8. ▶. An endnote citation format is required for scholarly essays. Contributors should consult the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. No additional bibliography is needed.

9. ▶. An abstract of 150–250 words must be included.

10. ▶. Please include brief biographical statement, affiliation, and contact information.

11. ▶. Regrettably, we can neither respond to, guarantee publication of, nor return unsolicited manuscripts.

12. ▶. We reserve the right to make editorial and stylistic changes.

13. ▶. If a submission is selected for publication, a Memorandum of Agreement will be sent and must be signed before publication.