Black cinema and media studies in print
Ever since Phyllis R. Klotman, our founding director, began publishing a regular newsletter, the BFCA has been a significant contributor to the development of the field of Black cinema studies.
Ever since Phyllis R. Klotman, our founding director, began publishing a regular newsletter, the BFCA has been a significant contributor to the development of the field of Black cinema studies.
The BFCA’s third director, Michael T. Martin, transformed the center’s original newsletter/microjournal into a leading global resource on the frontier of Black cinema studies. Black Camera: An International Film Journal, featuring interviews with directors and actors, scholarly articles, and more, continues to be published biannually.
In 2019, BFCA Director Terri Francis and Betsy Stirratt, Director and Curator of the Grunwald Gallery, presented “Rough and Unequal,” a film installation that explores the waxing and waning of the moon by artist Kevin Jerome Everson. Rough and Unequal explores this presentation through essays, images, and dialogues with writer Ross Gay, art historian Kelli Morgan, archivist Carmel Curtis, film scholar Joan Hawkins, and more.
The event booklet for the workshop “Paulin Vieyra, Pioneer of African Cinema: Filmmaker, Producer, Historian,” with an introductory essay by BFCA director Terri Francis and Francophone studies professor Vincent Bouchard. In French and English.
“I always tell people that if you are not on a piece of paper, then you don’t exist. […] I always tell people the most revolutionary thing you can do is do a book about your life. Don’t let anybody call it a vanity press. You just do this, this magnificent thing, and you put it on the best paper you can find. Put all your friends in it, everybody you loved, and do a lot of them so one day they will find you and know you were all here together.”
—Camille Billops, filmmaker, archivist, editor, educator, and artist
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