IU Press Journals to Publish Black Camera

In partnership with the Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive (BFCA), IU Press Journals will publish Black Camera, edited by Michael T. Martin, beginning in the fall of 2009.  

Black Camera is devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States. Published twice a year, it features essays and interviews that engage film in social as well as political context and in relation to historical and economic forces that bear on the reception, distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.

In addition, Black Camera includes research and archival notes, editorials, reports, interviews with emerging and prominent filmmakers, and book and film reviews and addresses a wide range of genres—including documentary, experimental film and video, diasporic cinema, animation, musicals, comedy, and so on. It challenges received and ensconced views and assumptions about the traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, where new and longstanding cinematic formations are in play. While its scope is interdisciplinary and inclusive of all of the African diaspora, the journal devotes issues or sections of issues to national cinemas, as well as independent, marginal, or oppositional films and cinematic formations.

Please check the IU Press Journals website for more information on Black Camera and on Film History, which has been published by IU Press since 2004 and is now in its twentieth volume.

The Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive, directed by Michael Martin, was established in 1981 as a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans. Included in its collection are hundreds of movie posters. Black Camera will regularly include four-color samples of this impressive collection in every issue.