Michael T. Martin is a professor of cinema and media studies at the Media School at Indiana University, where he teaches and researches diasporic cinema, documentary practice, and Latin, African, and Caribbean postcolonial cinemas. Dr. Martin has published or co-published several books, including Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality (1995), Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies (2007), The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present (2019), and From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (2020), in addition to many scholarly journal articles. At Indiana University, Dr. Martin served as director of the BFC/A for nine years until 2017. During this time, he founded the journal Black Camera, of which he remains editor-in-chief.

The Michael T. Martin Collection features papers, videocassettes, video reels, and other materials from Dr. Martin’s career. The collection contains research materials, drafts, notes, audiovisual material, and correspondences related to Dr. Martin’s 1988 documentary In the Absence of Peace, which examines post-revolutionary Nicaraguan society and the social ramifications of the nation’s forty-year dictatorship. The collection also contains many of the edited volumes, articles, and interviews from Dr. Martin’s career, as well as assorted items relevant to his research areas, such as student dissertations, documentary video reels, and various academic and popular articles.

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