Lynne Macedo is Associate Fellow of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She has previously worked as joint editor of the Caribbean Press and Guyana Classics series. Her 2001 doctoral dissertation was entitled Fiction and Film: The Influence of Cinema on Writers from Trinidad and Jamaica, 1950-1985. Among her publications are articles on ‘The Indian Film in Trinidad’ (Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana, Ian Randle, 2004) and ‘A Comparison of the works of Alfred Hitchcock and V.S. Naipaul’ (Entertext, 2001).