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... of the Jamaican landscape as an exoticized idyll and the representation of Jamaicans as Rasta and/or gangsters. Tied to these images are the depictions of Jamaicans as obeah workers and believers. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Through the Eyes of Hollywood: Reading Representations of Jamaicans in American Cinema...

...Arnold Antonin This article traces the history of cinema in Haiti from the appearance of the first cinematograph there in December 1899 through to the contemporary period. Paying attention both to the kinds of films Haitians have watched, and to the various types of films that Haitian filmmakers...

..., demonstrating the presence of French Caribbean cinema in the broader context. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Ciné woulé, ciné en progrès: An Investigation of the Francophone Caribbean Film Circuit, 1968–2010 Meredith N. Robinson After a sixteen-year hiatus, the Martinican communist journal Action...

...Rocío Zambrana This reflection on Ren Ellys Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) engages their reading of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s cinema, paying particular attention to sensorial actualities that offer apprehension of the past of colonial violence...

..., along with Jamaicans' responses to its depiction of their homeland, allow us to look beyond the news footage of the Union Jack coming down in the island's 6 August 1962 independence ceremony to observe some contemporary choices on what to show on cinema screens as the dissolution of the British Empire...

..., Film, and Television at UCLA and was the author of a much-celebrated book, Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation , published in 1982. 6 He cut a striking figure, always in a jacket over a sweater with a scarf wrapped around his neck (no matter the weather), a half-chewed...

... to the constructions of masculinity mobilized through soul music; in Badasssssss Cinema, he explores the implications of the parodic overstatements of masculine and feminine stereotypes in blaxploitation cinema; while in The Darker Side of Black his concern is with the homophobia of dancehall...

... and Francophone Literature.” Meredith N. Robinson completed her PhD in French literature at the University of Texas, Austin, in May 2010. Her dissertation traces the development of cinema in Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique and offers a critical analysis of a number of recent...

... and was educated there, in the United Kingdom, and in Nigeria. After working as a cultural journalist and editor, she joined the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, in 1992, where she is a professor of African literature and cinema. She researches and publishes in the areas of contemporary Caribbean...

..., and on Hai- tian cinema and literature. She is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Africultures on contemporary Caribbean theater and the National Theater l’Artchipel in Guadeloupe. Dominique Brebion has been a consultant on visual art at the Direction régionale des affaires...

... to a screenplay: “Chris Blackwell gave me a script for the fi lm and tell me that same guy [Perry Hen- zell] now want me to play the lead part Other recent studies of Jamaican dancehall culture and cinema have emphasized that the fi lm was shot without a script. Norman C. Stolzoff ’s book Wake the Town...

... hoardings that once overshadowed Astor Place—have become part of the city’s iconogra- phy. And while never garnering the marginal acclaim of Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, and other pioneers of avant-garde cinema, Burckhardt made more than sixty experimental films over the course of his life.7...

...); Le président a-t-il le SIDA?, dir. Arnold Antonin, Centre Pétion- Bolivar, 2006. With this essay I also break into a new area—Haitian cinema—given the limited scholarship to date. See Arnold Antonin, “Cinema in Haiti,” Small Axe, no. 27 (October 2008): 87–93. 5 Paul Farmer, AIDS...

... and the Cinema for Peace awards at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2006. All dialogue transcriptions are mine. small axe 35 • July 2011 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-1334230 © Small Axe, Inc. 44  |  Heading South: Love/Sex, Necropolitics, and Decolonial...

... Radjahyksha, You Don't Belong: Pasts and Futures of Indian Cinema (Shanghai: Renmin, 2012). 5 “Asian Circle of Thought 2012 Shanghai Forum,” special issue, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 15, no. 1 (2014). 6 See “Bandung/Third World Sixty Years,” special issue, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 17...

... Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell). W ayne M arshall is an assistant professor of music history at Berklee College of Music, Boston. An ethnomusicologist by training, he researches the interplay between sound reproduction technologies, popular media, and musical publics, with a focus on the intertwined...

..., and the Black Radical Imaginary Carter Mathes 42 Through the Eyes of Hollywood: Reading Representations of Jamaicans in American Cinema Tanya Batson-Savage...

..., Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary; and Conjuring Bearden. SX25 • February 2008 • Contributors | 183 Oneika Russell received her diploma in painting from Edna Manley College, Jamaica, in 2003, and MA in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths College...

.... Louis from 2015 to 2017. He is the coeditor of Mzansi at the Movies: Cinema and Film Culture in South Africa (forthcoming) and “We Remember Differently”: Race, Memory, Imagination (2011). He is currently writing a book, “Against Afronormativity: Queering Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Aesthetics...

... Fernando de Fuentes y Paul Leduc ISABEL C. ANIEVAS GAMALLO Post-NAFTA Mexican Cinema, 1998-2002 EMILY HIND Cultural Refractions: Border Life en la tierra de nadie BYRON BRAUCHLI Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita extraviada: The Poetics and Politics of Femicide ALEJANDRO ENRÍQUEZ Delete the Border...