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.

"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

• 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

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.

"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

• 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

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.

"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

• 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