Ebrahim, Haseenah2014-09-012014-09-011998Ebrahim, H. 1998. Re-Viewing the Tropical Paradise: Afro-Caribbean Women Filmmakers. PhD dissertation. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15340This dissertation presents a new conceptual framework, a "pan-African feminist" critical model, to examine how Euzhan Palcy of Martinique, Gloria Rolando and the late Sara Gómez of Cuba, and the Sistren Collective of Jamaica have negotiated - individually or collectively - the gender/race/class constraints within each of their societies in order to obtain access to the media of film and video. I examine the aesthetic, political, social and economic strategies utilized by these filmmakers to reinsert themselves into recorded versions of history, and/or to intervene in racist, (neo)colonial and/or patriarchal systems of oppression.en-UScinemafilmblackAfro-CaribbeanAfrican DiasporaCaribbean cinemaCuban cinemaMartiniqueEuzhan PalcySistren CollectiveGloria RolandoSara GomezThesis