Caribbean Black Power in cinema and fiction

This chapter addresses films and fiction produced during or about the Black Power era. Local production of film and music coincided with and was also influenced by the growing black consciousness and radicalization of the masses. The first locally produced films in the Caribbean, the Trinidadian The Right and the Wrong and The Caribbean Fox (both in 1970), carried the cinematic and ideological burdens of colonial and neocolonial impacts. The later films, Bim (Dir. Hugh A. Robertson, Trinidad and Tobago, 1974) and The Harder They Come (Dir. Perry Henzell, Jamaica, 1972), appropriated the Western genre to subvert its imperial message for local concerns.