Fall 2024 Black Camera issue features Close-Ups on Blaxploitation and Van Peebles’ creative breadth
The fall 2024 issue of Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Issue 16.1 features two Close-Ups on Blaxploitation and Melvin Van Peebles’ creative breadth and a new dossier by Olivier Barlet on FESPACO.
The first Close-Up by Joseph E. Roskos and André Seewood, PhD’23, “Reclaiming Blaxploitation in the Global Diaspora,” revisits the subject and controversy associated with Blaxploitation as a distinct genre in Hollywood cinema during the 1970s. The second Close-Up by Samuel Smucker, “A Wide Shot: Expanding the Frame on Melvin Van Peebles,” examines the filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles whose “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song!” defined the Blaxploitation genre later codified by Hollywood.
A scholarly publication supported by The Media School, the journal is edited by Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor (Class of 1948) Michael Martin. The Black Camera staff welcomes two new editorial assistants, doctoral students Ahmed Tahsin Shams and Justin Bonthuys. Cole Nelson will continue as the managing editor of the journal.