TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polack, Peter,
TI  - Jamaica, the land of film
SN  - 1443889911
AV  - PN1993.5.J25 P65 2017
U1  - 791.43097292 Ja Pol 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - In motion pictures
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207) and filmography (pages 174-179); Introduction -- The earliest years -- Pre-World War Two -- Post war -- The roaring sixties -- The decadent seventies -- The exciting eighties -- The naughty nineties -- The new millennium -- The paradise parishes -- The future
N2  - If Jamaica were an actor she would have appeared in more than one hundred and forty-one films. The list of movies where the name Jamaica plays a prominent part is probably closer to two hundred. This book chronicles over one hundred years of international film making in Jamaica from 1910, and provides many previously unpublished details of locations, actors and directors. As such, Jamaica, the Land of Film provides a comprehensive history which will be of great interest to all cinema aficionados and fans of Caribbean history -- Back cover
ER  -