Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and lecturer based in Lublin, Poland. He is director of the feature-length documentary film Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora and editor of Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South.

• Introduction: New Perspectives on Documentary Film in Latin America and the CaribbeanChristopher L. BallengeeNationhood in FocusThe Pride of Nationhood: Film and Nationalism in BarbadosRachel Moseley-WoodDocumentary Film and Cuba’s Censorship: Coffea Arábiga (1968)Vuk Vuković"A New Day is Dawning": Sweet Sugar Rage (1985) and Local Documentary Film CultureLisa TomlinsonAbolition: The Transatlantic Cinema of Zózimo BulbulBernardo OliveiraFrames of ResistancePocho Álvarez: Oppositional Documentary and Ecuador’s Socialism for the Twenty-first-CenturyMaría Fernanda MiñoDifficult Traces to Erase: Audiovisual Projects Remembering the Stroessner DictatorshipKoby Bryan HansenParticipation, Poetry, and Song: Anand Patwardhan and New Latin American CinemaShweta KishoreAgainst Denial: Postwar Testimonial Documentaries of El Salvador Ana Patricia RodríguezPalabras De Luz: Reclaiming Personal Stories and Narratives for Social Change in Postconflict ColombiaKeya Saxena and Gabriela MartínezBorder CrossingsA Jaguar in Paris: Teo Hernández’s Shamanic CinemaThomas MatusiakMemoirs of Sexile: Mariel Boatlift and Cuban Queer ArchivesLázaro J. GonzálezQueering Views: The Multiple Interventions of Michelle Mohabeer’s Queer Coolie-tudes (2019)Rupa PillaiFilming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai PujaSinah Theres KloßLooking for a Hero: Masters of the Dew, La Source, and the Quest for Water in HaitiRudyard J. AlcocerContemporary Caribbean FilmmakersMobile Decolonization in Progress: An Interview with Aiko Roudette, Director of Hairouna Film FestivalBartosz Wójcik"Every Moment Here Is Like a Movie": An Interview with Akley OltonKim JohnsonPerspective and Practice: An Interview with Kim JohnsonChristopher L. BallengeeContributor ListIndex

"This book does something rare and urgently needed: it places Latin American and Caribbean documentary within a shared analytical frame while treating the non-Hispanophone Caribbean seriously on its own terms. Shooting Back will be a fresh, go-to resource for scholars and students of film, visual culture, and the politics of memory." - Michael J. Lazzara, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies, University of California, Davis

Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and lecturer based in Lublin, Poland. He is director of the feature-length documentary film Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora and editor of Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South.

• Introduction: New Perspectives on Documentary Film in Latin America and the CaribbeanChristopher L. BallengeeNationhood in FocusThe Pride of Nationhood: Film and Nationalism in BarbadosRachel Moseley-WoodDocumentary Film and Cuba’s Censorship: Coffea Arábiga (1968)Vuk Vuković"A New Day is Dawning": Sweet Sugar Rage (1985) and Local Documentary Film CultureLisa TomlinsonAbolition: The Transatlantic Cinema of Zózimo BulbulBernardo OliveiraFrames of ResistancePocho Álvarez: Oppositional Documentary and Ecuador’s Socialism for the Twenty-first-CenturyMaría Fernanda MiñoDifficult Traces to Erase: Audiovisual Projects Remembering the Stroessner DictatorshipKoby Bryan HansenParticipation, Poetry, and Song: Anand Patwardhan and New Latin American CinemaShweta KishoreAgainst Denial: Postwar Testimonial Documentaries of El Salvador Ana Patricia RodríguezPalabras De Luz: Reclaiming Personal Stories and Narratives for Social Change in Postconflict ColombiaKeya Saxena and Gabriela MartínezBorder CrossingsA Jaguar in Paris: Teo Hernández’s Shamanic CinemaThomas MatusiakMemoirs of Sexile: Mariel Boatlift and Cuban Queer ArchivesLázaro J. GonzálezQueering Views: The Multiple Interventions of Michelle Mohabeer’s Queer Coolie-tudes (2019)Rupa PillaiFilming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai PujaSinah Theres KloßLooking for a Hero: Masters of the Dew, La Source, and the Quest for Water in HaitiRudyard J. AlcocerContemporary Caribbean FilmmakersMobile Decolonization in Progress: An Interview with Aiko Roudette, Director of Hairouna Film FestivalBartosz Wójcik"Every Moment Here Is Like a Movie": An Interview with Akley OltonKim JohnsonPerspective and Practice: An Interview with Kim JohnsonChristopher L. BallengeeContributor ListIndex

"This book does something rare and urgently needed: it places Latin American and Caribbean documentary within a shared analytical frame while treating the non-Hispanophone Caribbean seriously on its own terms. Shooting Back will be a fresh, go-to resource for scholars and students of film, visual culture, and the politics of memory." - Michael J. Lazzara, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies, University of California, Davis

Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and lecturer based in Lublin, Poland. He is director of the feature-length documentary film Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora and editor of Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South.

• Introduction: New Perspectives on Documentary Film in Latin America and the CaribbeanChristopher L. BallengeeNationhood in FocusThe Pride of Nationhood: Film and Nationalism in BarbadosRachel Moseley-WoodDocumentary Film and Cuba’s Censorship: Coffea Arábiga (1968)Vuk Vuković"A New Day is Dawning": Sweet Sugar Rage (1985) and Local Documentary Film CultureLisa TomlinsonAbolition: The Transatlantic Cinema of Zózimo BulbulBernardo OliveiraFrames of ResistancePocho Álvarez: Oppositional Documentary and Ecuador’s Socialism for the Twenty-first-CenturyMaría Fernanda MiñoDifficult Traces to Erase: Audiovisual Projects Remembering the Stroessner DictatorshipKoby Bryan HansenParticipation, Poetry, and Song: Anand Patwardhan and New Latin American CinemaShweta KishoreAgainst Denial: Postwar Testimonial Documentaries of El Salvador Ana Patricia RodríguezPalabras De Luz: Reclaiming Personal Stories and Narratives for Social Change in Postconflict ColombiaKeya Saxena and Gabriela MartínezBorder CrossingsA Jaguar in Paris: Teo Hernández’s Shamanic CinemaThomas MatusiakMemoirs of Sexile: Mariel Boatlift and Cuban Queer ArchivesLázaro J. GonzálezQueering Views: The Multiple Interventions of Michelle Mohabeer’s Queer Coolie-tudes (2019)Rupa PillaiFilming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai PujaSinah Theres KloßLooking for a Hero: Masters of the Dew, La Source, and the Quest for Water in HaitiRudyard J. AlcocerContemporary Caribbean FilmmakersMobile Decolonization in Progress: An Interview with Aiko Roudette, Director of Hairouna Film FestivalBartosz Wójcik"Every Moment Here Is Like a Movie": An Interview with Akley OltonKim JohnsonPerspective and Practice: An Interview with Kim JohnsonChristopher L. BallengeeContributor ListIndex

"This book does something rare and urgently needed: it places Latin American and Caribbean documentary within a shared analytical frame while treating the non-Hispanophone Caribbean seriously on its own terms. Shooting Back will be a fresh, go-to resource for scholars and students of film, visual culture, and the politics of memory." - Michael J. Lazzara, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies, University of California, Davis