BFCA’s inaugural dossier on the life and work of Jessie Maple (1937-2023). The dossier features an introduction by Dr. Novotny Lawrence; articles by E. Danielle Butler and Dr. Chuck Jackson; a transcription of the Q&A following the 4K restoration screening of Will (Jessie Maple, 1981) at IU Cinema on February 1, 2024; an interview with the filmmaker conducted by former BFCA director Dr. Audrey T. McCluskey in 2005; and a gallery of archival materials from The Jessie Maple Collection.

The issue also includes:

A special dedication honoring actor Tony Todd (1954-2024), actor James Earl Jones (1931-2024), and producer and composer Quincy Jones (1933-2024).

« Black Panther, Afrofuturism, and the (Erased) Memory of Patrice Lumumba » by Dr. Stephen Casmier

« The Racial/Body Gothic: Racial Mixing, Passing and the Ghosts of Slavery in Lovecraft Country » by Dr. Jacqueline M. Pinkowitz

« Articulation, Embodiment, and the General Intellect in Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep » by Elijah S. Levine

« A Reparative Reading of the Atlantic Ocean in Moonlight » by Dr. Michael Anthony Turcios

« Black Fire Films Change the Idea of Whose Lives Matter » by Ayşehan Jülide Etem

« Residential Warfare: Reframing Black Gang Life Films through an Empathetic Lens and the Expansion of the Conversation on Black Existence » by Marcelese Cooper

Beti Ellerson’s « Reading, Writing, Researching African Women in Cinema: Reflections on Sisters of the Screen, Twenty-Five Years and African African Women in Cinema Dossier, Ten Years Onward » for the AFRICAN WOMEN IN CINEMA DOSSIER

« African Cinema 2023-2024: How to Inhabit Our World? » for the OLIVIER BARLET DOSSIER

Steven W. Thomas’ book review of Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres

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