New issue of Black Camera published this fall
A new issue of Black Camera: An International Film Journal was published this fall. The new issue features a tribute to athlete, actor, and activist Jim Brown in addition to the following table of contents:
- Make Way for Tomorrow: Documenting the Struggle in Madeline Anderson’s Integration Report 1 (1960) by Matthew Eng
- CLOSE-UP: The Harder They Come: The Legacy Continues an edited collection of works compiled by and with an introduction by Allison J. Brown
- Fear, Sufferation, and Mythology in the Metamorphosis of Ivan to Rhygin by Nicole Plummer
- The Postcolonial Jamaican Outlaw Hero in Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come by William A. Heade
- “I wanted to combine realism with a sort of lighter touch”: An Interview with Perry Henzell, Director of The Harder They Come by Bruce Paddington
- Casting, Music, and Logistics in The Harder They Come: A Conversation with Robert Russell by Allison J. Brown
- A Pioneer of Jamaican Film: A Conversation with Raymond Edwards by Alpha Obika
- Dossier: The Harder They Come, 50th Anniversary Exhibition by Allison J. Brown
- CLOSE-UP: Jordan Peele, the “Looking Trilogy” with introduction by David C. Wall
- Horror and Loss in Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor and Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” by Alice Mikal Craven
- Horrifying Whiteness and Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” by Julia Mollenthiel
- Black Identity and Resistance Revisited through Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” and “Us” by Jayson Baker
- The Work of Horror after “Get Out” by Catherine Zimmer
- FESPACO, Pt. 1: A Cinema in Response Terrorism by Olivier Barlet
- FESPACO, Pt. 2: Women in African Cinema by Olivier Barlet
- “I Dared to Make a Film”: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Safi Fayeby Beti Ellerson
- Book Review: Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film by Álvaro Ibarra
- Film Review: Atlantis (2021) by Babatunde Onikoyi
Black Camera has also recently made several staffing changes. Allison Brown will step down as the managing editor to complete and defend her dissertation in spring 2024 but will continue on the editorial team while Cole Nelson will assume the title and responsibilities of managing editor.