... depictions of motherhood, especially as they pertain to the question of race, is juxtaposed with the form of the oppositional gaze represented in two adoption documentary films: Nicole Opper's Off and Running (US, 2009) and Camille Billops and James Hatch's groundbreaking Finding Christa (US, 1991...

... of feminist cinema but, alas, discovered that WMM’s workshops had deteriorated into a platform for its members’ own productions. Meanwhile, NYSCA had initiated its own funding for film­makers and would eventually fund Barbara Kopple, Camille Billops, Jill Godmilow, Yvonne Rainer, Lizzie Borden, Jennie...

... Billops (as Girl #1, Girl #2, Girl #3, and Girl #4) in Selma (dir. Ava DuVernay, 2014) How can visual culture represent African American subject- hood when the systems of governance themselves fail and refuse to represent African American interests? I suggest here that the reception and criticism of black...

... feature. Valerie Smith has considered Dunye’s earlier short films (her self- described “Dunyementaries”) in relation to Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied (US, 1990), Camille Billops and James V. Hatch’s Finding Christa (US, 1991), and Marco Williams’s In Search of Our Fathers (US...