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  • Professional Notes and Research Resources

Recent Publications on Black Film

  • African American Theater Buildings: An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900–1955

    Eric Ledell Smith, McFarland, 2010

  • ALT 28 Film in African Literature Today

    Ernest N. Emenyonu (editor), James Currey, 2010

  • American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary

    Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee (editors), University of Georgia Press, 2011

  • Blacks in Films, Television, and Video: An Encyclopedia

    Elizabeth Hadley, Routledge, 2010

  • Blaxploitation Films

    Mikel J. Koven, Oldcastle Books, 2010

  • Contemporary Black Cinema: Critical Methodologies

    Paula Massood, Routledge, 2010

  • Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror, 1890s to Present

    Robin R. Means Coleman, Routledge, 2011

  • Men in African Film and Fiction

    Lahoucine Ouzgane (editor), Boydell & Brewer, 2011

  • Paul Robeson: Film Pioneer

    Scott Allen Nollen, McFarland, 2010

  • Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface

    Anne Anlin Cheng, Oxford University Press, 2011

  • Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution

    Mahir Saul and Ralph A. Austen (editors), Ohio University Press, 2010 [End Page 165]

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 166]

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 167]

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 168]

Upcoming Film Festivals

San Francisco Black Film Festival

June 2011

http://sfbff.org/SFBFF/index-02.htm

The San Francisco Black Film Festival presents films from all over the world with an emphasis on independent black filmmakers. The festival strives to provide...

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