Vol. 5, Number 2 – Spring 2014
Table of Contents

Call for Close-Up Submissions

Fugitivity and the Filmic Imagination
-James Ford

Articles

Exile and the « Burden of Representation »: Trends in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Francophone African Filmmaking
– Melissa Thackway

Passing Films and the Illusion of Racial Equality
– Karen M. Bowdre

Close-Up: Nollywood-A Worldly Creative Practice

Introduction: Nollywood-An Archive of African Worldliness
-Carmela Garritano, Guest Editor

« New Nollywood »: Kunle Afolayan
-Jonathan Haynes

Evolving Nollywood Templates for Minor Transnational Film
-Moradewun Adejunmobi

From Yoruba to YouTube: Studying Nollywood’s Star System
-Noah Tsika

Nollywood: Outline of a Trans-ethnic Practice
-Akin Adesokan

Elmina: Obroni Art or Popular Melodrama?
-Jane Bryce

World Cinema versus Subjectivity: How to Read Tunde Kelani’s Abeni
-Kenneth W. Harrow

Nollywood and the Limits of Informality: A Conversation with Tunde Kelani, Bond Emeruwa, and Emem Isong
-Connor Ryan

Africultures Dossier

« Homosexuality Is Not Un-African; What Is Un-African Is Homophobia »: An Interview with Wanuri Kahiu on Jambula Tree
– Olivier Barlet

Interrelated Worlds: The Africultures Manifesto
-The Africultures Editorial Staff and Team

Book Reviews

MaryEllen Higgins, ed. Hollywood’s Africa after 1994
– Review by: Charles J. Sugnet

Devorah Heitner, Black Power TV
– Review by: Delphine Letort
Film Reviews

Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, 1984-1992 by Dagmar Schultz
– Review by: Tiffany N. Florvil
Archival Spotlight

Making Virginia Durr Less Blue: Preserving Eyes on the Prize
– Nadia Ghasedi
Archival News

News from the Black Film Center/Archive

– Stacey Doyle and Chinedu Amaefula