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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