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A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our
understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates
how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the
creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art
and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical and visually
expressive qualities of films produced in New England between 1915
and 1960 and held in the collections of Northeast Historic Film, a
moving image repository and study center that was established to
collect, preserve, and interpret the audiovisual record of northern
New England. Contributors from diverse backgrounds examine the
visual aesthetics of these films while placing them in their
social, political, and historical contexts. Each discussion is
enhanced by technical notes and the analyses are also juxtaposed
with personal reflections by artists who have close connections to
particular amateur filmmakers. These reflections reanimate the
original private contexts of the home movies before they were
recast as objects of study and artifacts of public history.
In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S.
bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II,
Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island
contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at a
critical time in the island's history. The U.S. military occupation
between 1941 and 1947 came at the same time that Trinidadian
nationalist politics sought to project an image of a distinct,
independent, and particularly un-British cultural landscape. The
American intervention, Neptune shows, contributed to a tempestuous
scene as Trinidadians deliberately engaged Yankee personnel,
paychecks, and practices flooding the island. He explores the
military-based economy, relationships between U.S. servicemen and
Trinidadian women, and the influence of American culture on local
music (especially calypso), fashion, labor practices, and everyday
racial politics. Tracing the debates about change among ordinary
and privileged Trinidadians, he argues that it was the poor, the
women, and the youth who found the most utility in and moved most
avidly to make something new out of the American presence. Neptune
also places this history of Trinidad's modern times into a wider
Caribbean and Latin American perspective, highlighting how
Caribbean peoples sometimes wield ""America"" and ""American ways""
as part of their localized struggles.
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Taylor Neptune, Jasper Thorne
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Taylor Neptune, Jasper Thorne
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Taylor Neptune, Jasper Thorne
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