My Account Log in

1 option

Shooting back : documentary film in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Christopher L. Ballengee.

JSTOR Books Available online

View online
Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ballengee, Christopher L., editor.
JSTOR (Online Service)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Documentary films--Latin America--History and criticism.
Documentary films.
Documentary films--Political aspects--Latin America.
Motion picture producers and directors--Latin America.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures and women--Latin America.
Motion pictures and women.
Documentary films--21st century.
Politics in motion pictures.
Social problems in motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : color illustrations
Other Title:
Documentary film in Latin America and the Caribbean
Place of Publication:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2026]
Contents:
Introduction: New perspectives on documentary film in Latin America and the Caribbean
Nationhood in focus
The pride of the nationhood: film and nationalism in Barbados / Rachel Moseley-Wood
Documentary film and Cuba's censorship: "Coffea Arábiga" (1968)
/ Vuk Vuković
"A new day is dawning": "Sweet Sugar Rage" (1985) and local documentary film culture / Lisa Tomlinson
"Abolition": The Transatlantic cinema of Zózimo Bulbul / Bernardo Oliveira
Frames of resistance
Pocho Álvarez: oppositional documentary and Ecuador's socialism for the twenty-first century / María Fernanda Miño
Difficult traces to erase: audiovisual projects remembering the Stroessner dictatorship / Koby Bryan Hansen
Participation, poetry, and song: Anand Patwardhan and new Latin American cinema / Shweta Kishore
Against denial: postwar testimonial documentaries of El Salvador / Ana Patricia Rodríguez
"Palabras De Luz": reclaiming personal stories and narratives for social change in postconflict Colombia / Keya Saxena and Gabriela Martínez
Border crossings
A jaguar in Paris: Teo Hernández's shamanic cinema / Thomas Matusiak
Memoirs of Sexile: Marial boatlift and Cuban queer archives / Lázaro J. González
Queering views: the multiple interventions of Michelle Mohabeer's "Queer Coolie-tudes" (2019) / Rupa Pillai
Filming mother: performing respectability through ethnographic documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai Puja / Sinah Theres Kloss
Looking for a hero: "Masters of the Dew, La Source," and the quest for water in Haiti / Rudyard J. Alcocer
Contemporary Caribbean filmmakers
Mobile decolonization in progress: an interview with Aiko Roudette, director of Hairouna Film Festival / Bartosz Wójcik
"Every moment here is like a movie": an interview with Akley Olton / Kim Johnson
Perspective and practice: an interview with Kim Johnson / Christopher L. Ballengee
Contributor list
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 11, 2026).
Other Format:
Print version:
Print version: Shooting back
ISBN:
9781496861818
1496861817
9781496861832
1496861833
9781496861801
1496861809
Publisher Number:
40033285405
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

Find

Home Release notes

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Find catalog Using Articles+ Using your account