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gratulations (2000) Here he shows how these films articulate 'the specificity of place' (239) while also demonstrating the limits imposed by the cultural infrastructure of the state and the market imperatives of a global media economy. Despite the narrow spaces of manoeuvre often available to filmmakers, the volume ends with a constructive discussion by Sylvia Hamilton about the ten years of work that went into the making of Portia White: Think on Me (2000) her film about the great Africadian singer whose neglect by cultural historians seems to have been due to multiple forms of marginalization. As in the case of the late Errol Williams's Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story (1997) a portrait of the first black player in the National Hockey League, it is not always the print historians who are in the vanguard of historical research. In all, this volume shows an informed intelligence at work in film studies in Atlantic Canada that engages seriously with the history of the region and the social position of the filmmaker. david frank University of New Brunswick