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Current Issue:
- Director's Notes
by Michael T. Martin - Archive Spotlight: Early 16mm Musicals
by Paul C. Heyde - Focus on St. Clair Bourne: Pride in the Panther (includes interview and update on Mr. Bourne's current documentary work-in-progress on the Black Panther Party)
- Thirty Years Later: Exploring Gordon Parks as Auteur
Through the Leadbelly Lens
by L. Roi Boyd, III - Far from Home: A Black Camera Movie Review
by Tanisha Ford - A Black Camera Book Review: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart's
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
by Joseph Germain Keehn II - A Black Camera Interview: Audrey T.
McCluskey
by Cory Brodnax - From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
Volume 21.1, Spring/Summer 2006
- Director's Notes: The
Power and the Story
by Audrey T. McCluskey -
Troubling the Waters: A
Conversation with Manthia Diawara
by Audrey T. McCluskey - A Sankofa Experience...The BFC/A looks back on the major events during the years 1999-2006
- Issues in the New Nigerian Cinema
by Akin Adesokan - The Constant Gardener: A Review
by Damien Strecker - A Pulse Response: Hustle and Flow: Is it Hard out Here for a Pimp?
- Black Women Filmmakers Forum: An Alternative Aesthetic
and Vision
by Paul C. Heyde
- Director's Notes: Back in the Day...When Men were Men and
Women were Fragile and "True"
by Audrey T. McCluskey -
Doing it Her Way: An Interview with Jessie
Maple
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Movie Review: Four Brothers by
John Singleton: An Old Formula; A New Market
by Anthony McCosham - No Laughing Matter: Spencer Williams, Jr.'s Christian
Moral Vision in The Blood of Jesus
by Damien Strecker - Black Film Fact
- The BFC/A Acquires the Jessie Maple
Collection
by Paul C. Heyde - News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde - On the Bookshelf
Volume 20.1, Spring/Summer 2005
- Director's Notes: Laying Down Burdens: Of Remembrance and
New Beginnings
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Emerging Voices: New Black Filmmakers - "We Have Too Few Heroes" and "We Have to Continue
to Bring Forth New Stories"
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Remembering Ossie Davis, 1917-2005
by Phyllis R. Klotman - The Making of a Documentary: Highlights from the Visit of
Artist-In-Residence, Salem Mekuria
by Jennifer Heusel - Black Film Classics: History Re-Told: The Power of
Cultural Knowledge in Euzhan Palcy's Sugar Cane Alley
A Film Review by Laila Amine - Following the Chisholm Trail: The "Unbought and Unbossed"
Campaign
by Jennifer Heusel - On the Bookshelf/Film Acquisitions
- News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
- Director's Notes: (South) African on my
Mind
by Audrey T. McCluskey -
South African Filmmaker Zola Maseko: "We are in the
Process of Making a Tradition"
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey - Julie Dash's Aesthetic Vision
by Laila Amine - Sisters of the Screen: Women Warriors of Cinema: Beti
Ellerson Presents Africana Women Filmmakers
by Jennifer Heusel - Black Film Fact
- Filmmaker Salem Mekuria to Conduct Workshop at
IU
by Eileen Julien - News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde - On the Bookshelf/Film Acquisitions
Volume 19.1, Spring/Summer 2004
- Director's Notes: Djimon Hounsou's "Magical"
Performance
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Telling Truth and Taking Names: An Interview with Spike
Lee
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey - School Daze: A Reflection - Sixteen Years
Later
by Ketwana Wilson-McCormick - News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde - New BFC/A Endowment Campaign
- Hollywood and The Civil Rights Movement
by Jason Housley - Black Film Fact
- Director's Notes: Imaging Blackness, 1915-2002: Exhibit
Documents Black Hollywood through Film Posters
by Audrey T. McCluskey - An Interview with Dr. Edward Mapp: A Passion for
Collecting Black Film
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey - Dr. Edward Mapp: "African Americans in Cinema: An
Enduring Odyssey"
by Ketwana Wilson-McCormick - Black Film Fact
- 8 Mile: Great White Hip-Hop
A Film Review by Steven L. Burks - News From the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde - The BFC/A Announces the New William Greaves Collection
- CD-ROM Review: "African Americans in Cinema: The First
Half Century"
by Paul C. Heyde
Volume 18.1, Spring/Summer 2003
- Director's Notes: Where is the Love?: Of He-roes,
She-roes, and Spiritual Gifts
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Revelations of the Spirit: An Interview with Filmmaker
Booker T. Mattison
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey - Cinematic Genocide
by Alile Sharon Larkin -
Hollywood Bait and Switch: The 2002 Oscars, Black
Commodification, and Black Political Silence (Part Two)
by Tyrone R. Simpson II - Black Film Fact
-
The 50 Most Influential Black Films: A Celebration
of African-American Talent, Determination, and Creativity
by S. Torriano Berry and Venise T.
Berry
A Book Review by Jason Housley - Basketball and the Global Marketplace: Erotic Power and
the Beautiful Island
A Film/Book Review by Rebecca Wood - News from the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde - On Our Bookshelf
Volume 17.2, Fall/Winter 2002 *
- Director's Notes: Can't Get No Satisfaction: Black Actors
in Hollywood
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Black Film Center/Archive Founding Sponsors Ossie Davis
and Ruby Dee Visit Indiana University
Interviewed by John McCluskey - BFC/A Director Presents Spike Lee with the Oscar Micheaux
Distinguished Achievement Award
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Monster's Ball: Hollywood's Grotesque History and/or
Something Else Besides?
A Film Review by Crystal L. Keels - Hollywood Bait and Switch: The 2002 Oscars, Black
Commodification, and Black Political Silence (Part One)
by Tyrone R. Simpson II - Zora, O Zora!: A Celebration of the Work of Zora Neale
Hurston
by Crystal L. Keels - Black Film Fact
- On Our Bookshelf
- News from the Archive
by Paul C. Heyde
Volume 17.1, Spring/Summer 2002
- Director's Notes: Haunting History with Truth: The Middle
Passage (1999)
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Kickin' Science: Legendary Filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles
is Inaugural BFC/A Artist-In-Residence
by Crystal L. Keels - Filmmaker Gloria Rolando: Exploring Complex Cuban
Roots
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Communal Cinema in a Global Context
by Nokwenza kaPlaatje - Lumumba: A Life, A Symbol
A Film Review by Damon Freeman - Black Orpheus (1959)
A Film Review by Natia L. Steans - Remembering Rogosin
by Peter Davis - Black Film Fact
- From the Archive
by Jenny Beasley
- Director's Notes: Pryor's Pain, Our Gain
by Audrey T. McCluskey - James Alan McPherson Lecture Highlights Richard Pryor
Film Retrospective
by Crystal L. Keels - Maya Angelou: Telling the Truth, Eloquently
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Promises Deferred: Race Star Trek, and the Future on Television
Book Review by De Witt Douglas Kilgore - Boarding House Blues (1948)
A Film Review by Natia L. Steans - The Richard Pryor Film Retrospective
by Crystal L. Keels - Black Film Fact
- On Our Bookshelf
- From the Archive
by Jenny Beasley
Volume 16.1, Spring/Summer 2001
- Director's Notes: A Hollywood State of Mind
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Tina Andrews: Having Her Say
Interviewed by Audrey T. McCluskey - Bamboozled by Blackness -- Movie Review
by Christy Tondeur - Recovering the First Black Film Mogul: Oscar
Micheaux -- Book Reviews
by Tryone Simpson - A BFC/A Website Poll: What is your favorite American Black Film?
- Forgotten Black Treasures: Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams -- Film Series with IU City Lights
- What They Say?: Black Speech in American Film -- A
Research Report
by Rose Wilkerson - Quadroon Blues -- Movie Review
by Natia Steans - Black Film Fact
- Recovering History: A Fool and His Money -- Movie
Review
by David Navone - From the Archive
by Gayla Koerting and Monique Threatt
Volume 15.2, Fall/Winter 2000 *
- Director's Notes: The Price of Realness: "Bling Bling" at
the Movies
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Interview with Melvin Van Peebles: Renaissance
Man
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Blackness for Sale: Movie Review of Black and
White
by Matthew Oware (additional material by Tyrone Simpson) - Lessons through Love -- A Book Review of With Ossie
& Ruby: In this Life Together by Ossie Davis and Ruby
Dee
by Marcia A. Berry (with additional material by Audrey T. McCluskey) - One Woman's Hoops & Dreams -- A Movie Review of Love & Basketball
by Shana Brodnax - Measuring "Mr. Tibbs" -- A Book Review of The Measure of
a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
by Grace Jackson-Brown (with additional material by Tyrone Simpson) - Black Talent, Front and Center: A Review of Afrocentricity
by Tyrone Simpson - BFC/A Outreach: Embracing Our Communities
- "Real to Reel: Urban and Hip Hop Culture in American Film" Mini Festival
- In Memoriam: Beah Richards (1926-2000)
- Black Film Fact
- From the Archive
by Monique L. Threatt
Volume 15.1, Spring/Summer 2000 *
- Director's Notes: Same Yoke, Different
Strokes
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Interview with Haile Gerima: Cultural
Warrior
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson: His Own Story; A Book
Review
by Crystal L. Keels - An Up and Coming Director--Robert Hardy (Trois, 1999); A Movie Review
by B. Afena Cobham - The Blood of Jesus: Timeless Black Values
by Mark Giles - From the Archive
by Monique L. Threatt - BFC/A Hosts Carl Franklin
- Milestones in Black Film History: The Lincoln Motion
Picture Company (1916-1923)
by Michelle L. McClure - Sankofa: "One Must Return to the Past in Order to Move
Forward"; A Film Review
by Michelle L. McClure - Black Film Fact
- On Our Bookshelf
- Advertisement: Genesis
- BFC/A's First International Film Festival "Films of the African Diaspora: Bridging Cultures through Film;" Highlights
- Director's Notes: Re-Imagining Ourselves
by Audrey T. McCluskey - A Conversation with Taye Diggs
by Audrey T. McCluskey - Introducing Filmmaker: Malcolm D. Lee
(Director/Screenwriter)
by Michelle L. McClure - The Best Man: A Movie Review
by Afena Cobham - Super Soul Flicks
- BFC/A Staff
- Milestones in Black Film History Oscar Micheaux
(1884-1951)
by Michelle L. McClure - From the Archive
by Monique L. Threatt - Black Film Fact
- Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies; A Book Review
by Ricky Von Johnson - Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography; A Book Review
by Michelle L. McClure - Upcoming Events: "Films of the African Diaspora," March 23-25, 2000
Volume 14.1, Spring/Summer 1999
- From the Director: In Retrospect
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Zora at the Society for Cinema Studies
- From the Archive
- Review: Angelou Depicts Family Renewal
by Aimee Hall - We Say Goodbye to Ester Rolle (1920-1998)
- Review: Medusa Redux
by Jennifer Breen - Amistad Colloquium Raises Questions of Critical
Dialogue
by Jennifer Breen - Commentary: Slavery on the Big Screen
by Walton Muyumba - Review: The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract--Film and
Literature, by Clyde R. Taylor
by Rebecca Wood - Growing Up Gerard
by Tyrone Simpson - Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and
Video
Phyllis R. Klotman and Janet K. Cutler, eds. - Commentary: Shafted Victory
by Tyrone Simpson - Review: White Laager and Generations of Resistance
by Shane D. Graham - Advertisement for White Laager, Generations of Resistance, Winnie Mandela, and Remember Mandela!
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - An Interview with Lady Lane
by Jennifer Breen - A Reader Responds: Eugene W. Jackson
- BFC/A Visiting Researcher: Charles Taylor
by Charles Taylor - Jean-Marie Teno and Anti-Documentary
by Ray Privett - The Politics and Pleasures of Teaching Black Media
by Jacqueline Stewart - Film Review: Beloved
by Walton Muyumba
Volume 13.1, Spring/Summer 1998 *
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Hollywood's First Black Sounds: Hearts in
Dixie
by Aimee Hall - Amistad: A Vision for the Future
by Louise Bernard - Paul Robeson, April 8, 1998 -- The Centennial of his
Birth
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Reviews: A Festival of Cinema
by Radiclani Clytus - Soldiers without Swords
by Aimee Hall - Eve's Bayou
by Frances Gateward
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Remembering Tupac Shakur
by Edward Pavlic - The Pedogogy of Slavery: Understanding Literacy in Charles Burnett's Nightjohn
by Radiclani Clytus - From the Archive: The Men of Montford Point
- New Resources Contextualize Black Filmmakers (Women
Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diapora: Decolonizing the Gaze,
Locating Subjectivity
by Audrey Foster; Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers by Spencer Moon)
by Aimee Hall - Yvonne Welbon: Discussing Community and Culture on the I.U. Campus
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Ayoka Chenzira: One Step at a Time
by Aimee Hall - FESPACO 97: Celebrating African and Diasporic Film
by Zeinabu irene Davis - FESPACO Nights in Michigan
by Eileen Julien - Radiclani Clytus Reviews Get on the Bus directed by Spike Lee
- From the Archives: On Becoming a Women
- In Darkest Hollywood: Historicizing South African
Cinema
by Aimee Hall
Volume 11.2, Winter/Spring 1996-97
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Julie Dash: Filmmaking within a Culture of Women
by Aimee Hall - In Other News
by Monique Threatt - Red Carnelian: Fostering Black Film
- From the Archives: Streetcorner Stories
by Susanne Schwibs
Volume 11.1, Spring/Summer 1996
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Norman Collection Inventoried
by Jill Moniz - In Other News
- Gone but Never Forgotten: B. McQueen, M. Sinclair, R.
Cash and T. Cade Bambara
by Gloria J. Gibson - Dwight E. Brooks Reviews: Black Film/White Money
by Jesse A. Rhines - Film Review by Andrea M. Morehead: Vintage: Family of Values
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Bernie Casey visits Black Film Center/Archive
- Critic's Corner: Mother of the River
by Sergio Alejandro Mims - A Conversation with Carmen Coustaut
by Andrea M. Morehead
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis R. Klotman - In Other News
- Madam Sul-Te-Wan and D.W. Griffith
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson - Reel News
- Nelson Mandela: Prisoner to President
by Laura Crain - Interview with Alfred Wiggins. December 11, 1994
by Richard Pierce
- An Exciting Time for Black Cinema
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson - BFC/A Monograph Now Available: In Touch with the Spirit: Black Religious and Musical Expression in American Cinema
- Black Cinema: A Celebration of Pan-African Film. Tisch School of the Arts,
New York University 22-30 March 1994
by Louise Bernard - Tributes:
- Jackie Shearer (1946-1993)
by Zeinabu irene Davis - Marlon Riggs's Legacy of Simple Truth (1957-1994)
by Audrey Levasseur
- Jackie Shearer (1946-1993)
- From the Director's Chair
by Phyllis Klotman - When Black Women Filmmakers Speak...Claudia Polley--Indiana's Black Woman
Film Producer
by Jill Smith - Docutainment Filmmaker: Michelle Parkerson
by Phyllis Klotman - Camille Billops: Cultural Archaeologist
by Janet Cutler and Phyllis Klotman - Discovery Through Cinema: An Interview with Carroll Parrot Blue
by Gloria Gibson-Hudson - Reel News
- When Girlz N the Hood Become Reel Women: A Call for Alternative
Images
by Breshaun Joyner
Volume 7.1, Spring/Summer 1993
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Filmmakers at IU
by Kern Jackson and Jill Smith - Reel News
- Donations--Peter Davis collection, Donna Mungen, Indianapolis Public Library
- In Other News
- Conference Participants
- Revisiting the Spirit: Highlights of the BFC/A Summer Conference
by Tawanna R. Brown
Volume 6.1, Spring/Summer 1991 *
- From the Director-Fespaco 91
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Black Film: Mo' Better in the '90s
by Ed Guerrero - 1990-1991 BFC/A Staff
- Reel News
- Invisible Men Made Visible: Review of Tongues
Untied
by Bill Stanford Pincheon - Excerpt from an interview with Les Blank
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - In Visible Colours: An International Women of Colour and Third World Women
Film/Video Festival and Symposium
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson - A New Life: Independent black filmmaking during the 1980's
by Sergio Alejandro Mims - In Retrospect:Do the Right Thing
by Tracy Snipe - Reel News
- BFC/A Festival Highlights
by Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson - From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Spencer Williams
by Adrienne Lanier Seward - A Year in Review
by Allen Johnson - In Memoriam: Kathleen Collins Prettyman and Bill Gunn
- BFC/A Festival Highlights
by Gloria J. Gibson - From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Latin American Film
by Pat Aufderheide - Reel News
- Michelle Parkerson Interview
by Gloria J. Gibson - Round Midnight: A Critique
by K.L. Ware
- From the Director
by Phyllis R. Klotman - Tribute to Lorenzo Tucker
by Phyllis R. Klotman - The Fifth Annual Blacklight Film Festival
by Sergio Mims - BFC/A Plans Unique Festival
- In Perspective: Blacks and the Movies: "Hollywood's State of
Disgrace"
by Mike Pearson - Monsters, Aliens and Plants: Reincarnated Stereotypes in Hollywood
Cinema
by Gloria J. Gibson - From the Archives: Historical Perspective: Film Music of The Green Pastures and The Blood of
Jesus
by Gloria J. Gibson - In Review: Who Says "She's Gotta Have It?"
by Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg - Fast Forward: Cinema Bytes
by Ronald R. Smith
- Film Festival/Workshop Brings Together Artists, Audience, and Issues
by Sharon Dean and Frances Stubbs-Palmer - In Focus: "There Are Many Stories to be Told and Many Battles to
Begin"
by Gloria Gibson - From the Director: Black Films Debut in China
by Phyllis R. Klotman - From the Archives: MGM/UA Donates Films to Black Film Center/Archive
- From the Filmmakers: Kathleen Collins, Mikki Grant, Duane Jones, Larry Clark, William Greaves, Woodie King, Alile Sharon Larkin, Spencer Moon
- In Perspective: "The Gods Must Be Crazy" or "Apartheid in
Technicolor"
by Barbara Moss - In Perspective: The 4th Annual Blacklight Film Festival
by Sergio Mims
- BFC/A Workshop/Festival Not Just Another Film Conference
by Sharon Dean - In Focus: Woodie King Caps Festival with Tribute to Julian Mayfield
by Frances Stubbs-Palmer - From the Director: A Letter Home
by Phyllis Klotman - From the Archives:
The Norman Motion Picture Company Collection: A Real Find
by Gloria Gibson - In Perspective: Are Minorities Changing Hollywood's Status Quo?
by Mike Pearson - In Perspective: The 9th Pan-African Film Festival
by Manthia Diawara
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