In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Notes

pp. 1-2
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Articles

Beyoncé: Media and Cultural Icon

pp. 3-4
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Filming the Fall: Plurality, Social Change, and Innovation in Contemporary Senegalese Cinema

pp. 5-6
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Selma: The Historical Record and the American Imaginary

pp. 7-8
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Articles

Spike Lee’s Documentaries: The Creative Art of Making Nonfiction

Delphine Letort
pp. 9-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.03
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Addressing the “Negro Problem”: Rethinking the Coon and the Mammy in King of the Zombies and Revenge of the Zombies1

Toni Pressley-Sanon
pp. 27-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.04
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Every Nigger Is a Star: Reimagining Blackness from Post–Civil Rights America to the Postindependence Caribbean

Erica Moiah James
pp. 55-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.05
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Benoît Ramampy (1947–1996): A Life Dedicated to Cinema

Karine Blanchon, Yalie Saweda Kamara
pp. 84-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.06
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Interview

On Practicing an Independent African American Cinema: An Interview with Kevin Willmott

De Witt Douglas Kilgore
pp. 95-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.07
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Close-Up: Black Film and Black Visual Culture

Introduction

Keith M. Harris
pp. 124-127
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“Black is . . .” and That’s the Beauty of It: Ten Propositions Concerning the Visible and the Visual, in Consideration of Black Cinema and Black Visual Culture1

Keith M. Harris
pp. 128-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.09
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Building the Black (Universal) Archive and the Architecture of Black Cinema

Lauren McLeod Cramer
pp. 131-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.10
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Conscious Quiet as a Mode of Black Visual Culture

Lokeilani Kaimana
pp. 146-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.11
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B.A.D. (Black Abstraction Dreaming): A Conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson

Michael Boyce Gillespie
pp. 155-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.0155
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In a (Not So) Silent Way: Listening Past Black Visuality in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

Charles “Chip” P. Linscott
pp. 169-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.13
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Blackness and the Image of Motility: A Suspenseful Critique

Alessandra Raengo
pp. 191-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.14
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Africultures Dossier

Interviews with African Women Filmmakers by Olivier Barlet

“Coming to Terms with the Past Will Allow One to Continue”: Interview with Leyla Bouzid about As I Open My Eyes

Olivier Barlet, Beti Ellerson
pp. 207-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.15
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“I Am Not Interested in Denouncing Polygamy: My Film Goes beyond That”: Interview with Angèle Diabang about So Long a Letter

Olivier Barlet, Beti Ellerson
pp. 213-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.16
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“It Is Up to Us to Work on Our Own Complexes”: An Interview with Alice Diop

Olivier Barlet, Beti Ellerson
pp. 218-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.17
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African Women in Cinema Dossier

African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political1

Beti Ellerson
pp. 223-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.18
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Book Reviews

Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled by Ashley Clark (review)

Christopher Lloyd
pp. 240-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.19
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Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity by Allyson Nadia Field (review)

Julie Lavelle
pp. 242-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.20
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Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique ed. by Josef Gugler (review)

Sheila Petty
pp. 244-247
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Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex, and Afro-Religiosity by Montré Aza Missouri (review)

Maria Abegunde
pp. 247-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.22
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South Africa’s Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films by Litheko Modisane (review)

Jordache A. Ellapen
pp. 250-252
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Archival Spotlight

Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking: Reprocessing and Digitization

Dorothy Berry, Megan MacDonald
pp. 253-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.8.1.24
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Archival News

pp. 257-258
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Recent and Upcoming Publications on Black Film

pp. 259-260
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