Rate My Professor Michael Martin

Martin's extensive publications include African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization (with Gaston Kabore, Indiana University Press, 2023), From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (with David C. Wall, 2020), The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present (2019), Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door (with David C. Wall and Marilyn Yaquinto, 2018), The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man (with David C. Wall, 2015), Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality (1995), and New Latin American Cinema (two volumes, 1995). Recent journal contributions appear in Black Camera, such as “The Future of African Filmmaking: A Roundtable Discussion” (2025) and “‘That’s the Difference, I Am Fully Engaged with Art’: Renee Baker on the Practice of Scoring Silent Film” (2023). He wrote and directed the award-winning documentary In the Absence of Peace and collaborated on the FESPACO & IMAGINE Film Institute project in Burkina Faso (2020-2022). A 2023 finalist for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for the Moving Image and 2024 Wells Professorship recipient, Martin has profoundly influenced scholarship on Black and postcolonial cinemas through his editorial, authorial, and curatorial efforts.