- Professional Notes and Research Resources
Journal of African Cinemas is a new peer-reviewed journal. We are accepting submissions for Volume IV scheduled for 2011. The theme for this issue is The Many Cinemas of Africa.
For the past four decades, African cinema has been construed as a mode of filmic discourse that is understood historically but defined artistically. That is, the cinema’s concern is with information brought to light less by formal technique than by an implicit world view. However, the combination of ideology, philosophy, and pedagogy found in African films necessitates a requestioning of aesthetics and praxis of African cinematic narration. This issue will allow researchers and readers to crossreference the various debates on African Cinema that have taken place in many books, journals, and conferences.
Themes of the issue will include:
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▸. The problem of defining “African Cinema” and “African Cinemas”
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▸. National and Transnational Cinemas
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▸. Marginal Cinemas and their Antecedents
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▸. Narratives of Resistance: Liberationist Cinema
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▸. Cinema of Difficult Dialogues
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▸. The Ethno-Phonic Cinemas: Language and the Nation
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▸. Anthropology and African Cinema: The Colonial Cinema
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▸. Third Cinema and African Filmic Narratives
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▸. Indigenous Cinema and African Cinematic Ideas
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▸. Essentialism in African Cinema: Calabash Cinema
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▸. Distribution, Exhibition, and Marketing the African Film
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▸. New Media and African Cinematic Ideas
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▸. The Meta-Narrative of Development and the African Film
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▸. Landscapes and Cinematic Narratives in Africa
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▸. Authorial Cinemas of Africa
The editors are looking for submissions for theoretical essays, reviews, and comparative analyses regarding African cinema through its historical [End Page 202] and contemporary legacies. The editors recognize the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas and are looking for papers that will expound on the identity/identities of Africa and how that perception is interrogated within African film languages.
Articles of up to 6,000 words will be considered. Please send both digital and hard copies to either one of the editors:
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Keyan G. Tomaselli
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CCMS, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Howard College Campus
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Durban 4041
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South Africa
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tomasell@ukzn.ac.za
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Martin Mhando
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Intellect, The Mill
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Parnall Road
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Fishponds
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Bristol BS16 3JG
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United Kingdom
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mhando@murdoch.edu.au
Recent Publications on Black Film
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African Americans and the Oscar: Decades of Struggle and Achievement
Edward Mapp, Scarecrow Press, 2008
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African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
Lindiwe Dovey, Columbia University Press, 2009
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“Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films
Stephane Dunn, University of Illinois Press, 2008
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Black Cinema: Historical Moments
Charlene Regester, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2008
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Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh
Darryl J. Littleton, Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2008 [End Page 203]
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Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film
Adilifu Nama, University of Texas Press, 2008
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Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide
Josiah Howard, FAB Press, 2008
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Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre
Novotny Lawrence, Routledge, 2007
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Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars
Donald Bogle, Continuum, 2007
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Butterfly McQueen Remembered
Stephen Bourne, Scarecrow Press, 2007
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Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women and the Moving Image Since 1970
Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, 2008
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Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film
Cindy Patton, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
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The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954
Christopher P. Lehman, University of Massachusetts Press, 2008
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Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema
Sheila J. Petty, Wayne State University Press, 2008
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W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time
Melvyn Stokes, Oxford University Press, 2007
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Dancing on the White Page: Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography
Kwakiutl L. Dreher, State University of New York Press, 2008
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The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa
Audrey McCluskey (editor), University of Illinois Press, 2009
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Dictionary of African Filmmakers
Roy Armes, Indiana University Press, 2008
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Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film
Mia Mask, University of Illinois Press, 2009
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Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television
Bob McCann, McFarland & Company, 2009 [End Page 204]
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Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather
Stephen Bourne, Scarecrow Press, 2007
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