Recent and Upcoming Publications on Black Film

African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization, Volumes 1–3
Michael T. Martin and Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré (eds.), Indiana University Press, 2023

African Cinema, Neoliberal Narratives and the Right of Necessity
Olivier J. Tchouaffe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022

African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
Cajetan Iheka, Duke University Press, 2021

African Film Studies: An Introduction
Boukary Sawadogo, Routledge, 2022 

Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness
Renée T. White and Karen A. Ritzenhoff (eds.), Lexington Books, 2021

Afro-Atlantic Histories
Adriano Pedrosa and Tomás Toledo, DelMonico Books, 2021

Ana M. López: Essays
Laura Podalsky and Dolores Tierney (eds.), SUNY Press, 2023

Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War
Jennifer Ponce de León, Duke University Press, 2021

Anthropologies of Entanglement: Media and Modes of Existence
Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell, and Tim Othold (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

Arthur Jafa: MAGNUMB
Lærke Jørgensen and Mathias Seeberg (eds.), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021

The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker’s Search for New Life
L. H. Stallings, Indiana University Press, 2021

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afro-Future, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther
Ruth E. Carter, Chronicle Books, 2023

Beyoncé in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times
Christina Baade and Kristin McGee (eds.), Wesleyan University Press, 2021

Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Christine Y. Kim and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews (eds.), DelMonico Books, 2023

Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film
Clive Nwonka, Bloomsbury, 2023

Black Cinema & Visual Culture: Art and Politics in the 21st Century
Artel Great and Ed Guerrero (eds.), Routledge, 2023

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Deborah Willis, NYU Press, 2021

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Zachary F. Price, Ohio State University Press, 2022

Blackface
Ayanna Thompson, Bloomsbury, 2021 

Black Film British Cinema II
Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha (eds.), Goldsmiths and MIT Press, 2021

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris, Saga Press, 2023

Black Panther (21st Century Film Essentials)
Scott Bukatman, University of Texas Press, 2022

Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
Terence McSweeney, University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
Mia Mask, University of Illinois Press, 2023

Black to the Movies: and Other Pop Culture Musings
Michael Stradford, Smith Stradford Services, 2021

Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture
Stefanie K. Dunning, University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
Jayna Brown, Duke University Press, 2021

Black Women Directors
Christina N. Baker, Rutgers University Press, 2022

Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide, 2nd Edition
Josiah Howard, FAB Press, 2021

A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film: From Nationalism to Protest
Darlene J. Sadlier, University of Texas Press, 2022

Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God
Shayne Lee, Lexington Books, 2022

Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches
Ifdal Elsaket, Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution
Susan Lord and María Caridad Cumaná (eds.), Indiana University Press, 2021

Cinema’s Original Sin: D. W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
Paul McEwan, University of Texas Press, 2022 

Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
Wil Haygood, Knopf, 2021

Decolonize Multiculturalism
Anthony C. Alessandrini, OR Books, 2023

The Digital Black Atlantic
Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs (eds.), University of Minnesota Press, 2021

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
Roger A. Sneed, Ohio State University Press, 2021

Dreams of Wakanda: Creators, Writers, and Comics Legends on the Impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther
Nic Stone et al., Random House Worlds, 2022

The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema
Temenuga Trifonova, Bloomsbury, 2022

The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema
Antonio Gómez and Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián (eds.), Bloomsbury, 2022

Filmmakers on Film: Global Perspectives
Andre Rui Graca, Eduardo Baggio, Manuela Penafria (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

Finding Me: A Memoir
Viola Davis, HarperOne, 2022

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers: Beyond Representation
Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap (eds.), Indiana University Press, 2023

Gaza on Screen: Geopolitics and Feminism
Nadia Yaqub, Duke University Press, 2023

Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film
Naomi Nkealah and Obioma Nnaemeka (eds.), Routledge, 2021

The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom
Alfred L. Martin Jr., Indiana University Press, 2021

Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures
Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla (eds.), Indiana University Press, 2021

Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World
Ross Melnick, Columbia University Press, 2022 

Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Milestone Series)
Lisa Doris Alexander, Wayne State University Press, 2021

In the Black Fantastic
Ekow Eshun, The MIT Press, 2022

Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze: Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics and Social Thought
Robert Stam, Bloomsbury, 2023

Indirect Subjects: Nollywood’s Local Address
Matthew H. Brown, Duke University Press, 2021

In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation: Racism, Reception and Resistance
Melvin Stokes and Paul McEwan (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963
Samson Kaunga Ndanyi, Lexington Books, 2022

Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander (eds.), University Press of Mississippi, 2023

John Akomfrah
James Harvey, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism
Terri Simone Francis, Indiana University Press, 2021

Just as I Am: A Memoir
Cicely Tyson and Michelle Burford, HarperCollins Publishers, 2022

Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be
Anita Haldemann (ed.), JRP|Editions, 2021

Kasi Lemmons: Interviews
Christina N. Baker (ed.), University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema
Vlad Dima, Michigan State University Press, 2022

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery
Allison Page, University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures
Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik (eds.), Duke University Press, 2021

Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema
Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
Cynthia Kros, Reece Auguiste, Pervaiz Khan (eds.), African Minds, 2022

Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Doris Berger and Rhea L. Combs (eds.), DelMonico Books, 2022

Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited
Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring (eds.), Wayne State University Press, 2021

Secret Violences: The Political Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960–1975
Slawomir Maslon, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar
Era Tara T. Green, Rutgers University Press, 2022

Selected Writings on Race and Difference
Stuart Hall, Duke University Press, 2021

Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture
Anadelia A. Romo, University of Texas Press, 2022

Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, University Press of Mississippi, 2021

The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960–1980
Mark Godfrey and Allie Biswas (eds.), Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2021

Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time
Susan Delson, Indiana University Press, 2021

Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes
Kenneth W. Harrow, Routledge, 2022

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It!
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, Lexington Books, 2022 

The Richard Dyer Reader
Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

The Struggle of Entertainment and Neoliberal Postcolonial Capitalist Politics in “New” Saudi Arabia: The Cultural Production of Modernity in the Global South
Anas M. Alahmed, Lexington Books, 2022

Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Takushi Odagiri, and Moonim Baek (eds.), Indiana University Press, 2022

Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film
Hervé Mayer and David Roche, Indiana University Press, 2022

Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism
Samantha A. Noël, Duke University Press, 2021

Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema
Jennifer DeClue, Duke University Press, 2022

Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas (eds.), Getty Research Institute, 2021

We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
Tre’vell Anderson, Andscape Books, 2023

White Terror: The Horror Film from Obama to Trump
Russell Meeuf, Indiana University Press, 2022

William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission
Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart (eds.), Columbia University Press, 2021

The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
Jonathan Beller, Duke University Press, 2021

A World History of Women Photographers
Luce Lebart and Marie Robert (eds.), Thames & Hudson, 2022

World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War
Masha Salazkina, University of California Press, 2023

Writings on Media: History of the Present
Stuart Hall, Charlotte Brunsdon (ed.), Duke University Press, 2021