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Michael T. Martin

Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor (Class of 1948)

Contact Information

Office:
0030L Franklin Hall
Email:
martinmt@indiana.edu
Phone:
812 855-7631

Research and Creative Interests

  • Diasporic and emigre cinematic formations
  • Latin, African, and Caribbean postcolonial cinemas
  • Transnational migration
  • Documentary practice
  • Redress Social Movements

Biography

Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Black Camera, An International Film Journal (Indiana University Press)

Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora–book series (Indiana University Press)

Books

  • [w/Gaston Kabore] African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization. Indiana University Press, 2023. Finalist Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for the Moving Image, UK: https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/news-events/news/item.html?n=3-volume-collection-on-african-cinema-shortlisted-for-the-2024-kraszna-kraus-award
    • Vol. 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations
    • Vol. 2: FESPACO–Formation, Evolution, Challenges
    • Vol. 3:  The Documentary Record–Declarations, Resolutions, Manifestoes, Speeches
  • [w/David C. Wall] From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep. Indiana University Press, 2020.
  • The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present. Indiana University Press, 2019
  • [w/ David C. Wall and Marilyn Yaquinto] Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Indiana University Press, 2018
  • [w/ David C. Wall] The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man. Indiana University Press, 2015
  • [w/ Marilyn Yaquinto] Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies. Duke University Press, 2007
  • New Latin American Cinema: Wayne State University Press, 1995
    • vol. 1 Theory, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations
    • vol. 2 Studies of National Cinemas
  • Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality. Wayne State University Press, 1995
  • [w/ Terry Kandal] Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World. Oxford University Press, 1989

Journal/Book Chapters (select and recent)

  • “‘That’s the Difference, I Am Fully Engaged with Art’: Renee Baker on the Practice of Scoring Silent Film and the Matter of ‘Race Movies,” Black Camera, vol. 14, no. 2 (Spring) 2023: 7-48
  • “Situating the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive in the Play of Memory,” PerAnkh–The June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive, London: Raven Row, 2023: 41-44
  • “Foreword,” Barry Jenkins and the Legacies of Slavery, Delphine Letort, NY: Lexington Books, 2023, ix-xi
  • “On ‘Mediated Solidarity’: Reading Ousmane Sembene in Sembene!,” Black Camera, vol. 12, no. 2 (Spring) 2021: 485-522
  • “The Land Beneath Our Feet: ‘The Enduring Legacy of the Past in the Present,'” Africa Today, vol. 67, no. 1, 2020: 73-94
  • “The Long Take: Gaston Kabore on the Formation, Evolution & Challenges to FEPACI & FESPACO,” Black Camera, vol. 12, no. 1, (Fall) 2020: 209-236
  • “Founding Myths and Storytelling: The African Modern,” Black Camera, vol. 12, no. 1, 2020: 601-04
  • “Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You and the Matter of the ‘Good Fight'”, Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020: 176-215
  • “The Practice of Curating the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive: A Conversation with the Founding Director,” Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 1, 2019: 40-61
  • (w/N. Griffis) “Black Women Becoming Whole: Bridgett M. Davis on Naked Acts, Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 2, 2019: 13-39
  • “Close-up: On the Colony’s Postcolony Encounter in Claire Denis’s Chocolat and White Material,” Black Camera, vol. 10, no. 1, 2018: 96-98, 99-122, 144-155
  • (w/Y. Kamara) “On the Commerce of Intimacy: Dany Laferriere on How to Make Love to a Negro…and Heading South,” Black Camera, vol. 9, no. 1, 2017: 80-105
  • “Nelson Pereira dos Santos on ‘Who is Beta?’ and Such Other Dauntingly Brazilian Maladies,” Black Camera, vol. 7, no. 2 (Spring) 2016: 11-36
  • “Struggles for the sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles Collective of Black Filmmakers,” L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, eds. University of California Press, 2015: 196-224
  • (w/ M. Moorman) “The Civilizing Mission of Globalization: Technology, African Cinematic Practice, and Overcoming Neocolonialism–A Conversation with Filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno,” Third Text, vol. 29, nos. 1-2, 2015: 61-74
  • “‘I just Wanted My Figures to Move’: The Filmmaking Practice of Mike Henderson,” Black Camera, vol. 7, no. 1, 2015: 60-90
  • “Conversations with Ava DuVernay–‘A Call to Action’: Organizing Principles of an Activist Cinematic Practice,” Black Camera, vol. 6, no. 1, 2014: 57-91
  • [w/ D. Wall] “Race, Space, and Gender in Ed Bland’s Cry of Jazz,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 31, no. 2, 2014: 136-147
  • [w/ D. Wall] “The Politics of Cine-Memory: Signifying Slavery in the History Film,” The Blackwell Companion to Historical Film, Robert Rosenstone and C. Parvulescu, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 445-467
  • “Documenting Modern Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic: An Interview with Amy Serrano,” Camera Obscura, vol. 25, no. 2, 2010: 161-172
  • “‘I Do Exist’: From ‘Black Insurgent’ to Negotiating the Hollywood Divide–A Conversation with Julie Dash,” Cinema Journal, vol. 49, no. 2, 2010: 1-16
  • “‘Buses are a Comin’. Oh Yeah!’: Stanley Nelson on Freedom Riders,” Black Camera, vol. 3, no. 1, 2011: 96-122
  • “‘I Make Documentaries to Give Voice to the Voiceless’: The Filmmaking Practice of Yoruba Richen,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 28, no. 3, 2011: 183-194
  • “‘Podium for the Truth’? Reading Slavery and the Neocolonial Project in the Historical Film: Queimada! and Sankofa in Counterpoint,” Third Text, vol. 23, no. 6, 2009: 717-731
  • “Joseph Gai Ramaka: ‘I am not a filmmaker engage. I am an ordinary citizen engage,” Research in African Literatures, vol. 40, no. 3, 2009: 206-219

Documentary Production

  • In the Absence of Peace [Martin/Shepard Production; written and directed by Michael T. Martin; award winning video documentary in Spanish and English, 54:00, color. Distributed by THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL: twn@twn.org

Interview

  • “Who Gets to Tell Our Stories? Charles Burnett and the Responsibility of the Artist,” Interchange, WFHB community radio, March 13, 2018

FESPACO & IMAGINE Film Institute Collaboration [Burkina Faso, 2020-2022]

  • (https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/news-events/news/item.html?n=black-camera-publishes-3rd-collaborative-issue-with-fespaco-concluding-2-year-initiative

Related News

  • Martin book examines Charles Burnett’s ‘Killer of Sheep’
  • Martin book explores lasting impact of ‘The Birth of a Nation’
  • Martin book contextualizes ‘The Spook Who Sat by the Door’
  • Martin commemorates 10 years of Black Camera at 50th-anniversary FESPACO
  • Martin gives keynote address at conference on memories of slavery, colonization
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