Michael Chanan

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  • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Was Revolutionary Cuba’s Great Director

  • Artificial Studpidity: On the Alienation of intelligence

    Free Associations, Number 88, Spring 2023

  • The BBC Question

  • Plight of the BBC

  • The Changing Geography of Third Cinema

    (Screen Special Latin American Issue Volume 38 number 4 Winter 1997) The history of the concept of Third Cinema, from the introduction of the term by Solanas and Getino in 1968 to the 1990s.

  • The Chronic Crisis of British Cinema

    (Inaugural Lecture, UWE, 2003)

  • Cinema in Latin America (1930-1960)

  • The Documentary Chronotope


    from Jump Cut, no. 43, July 2000, pp. 56-61

  • Documentary Film Latin America

    2005,Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film

  • The Economic Conditions of Cinema in Latin America


    (Third World Affairs 1985)

  • Latin American Documentary, A Political Trajectory

  • Mahler in Venice?

    (Music & Musicians, 1971) Thomas Mann, Gustav Mahler, and Visconti’s ‘Death in Venice’

  • Mind, body, Memory: Making sense of my brother’s dementia

    Free Associations, Number 92, Autumn 2024

  • More-About-Crimes-against-Humanities

    Glasgow Postgrad Symposium, 19 May 2011

  • New Cinemas in Latin America (1960-1995)


    Two chapters on Latin American cinema from The Oxford History of World Cinema, ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, OUP, 1996.

  • A Quartet for Our Times

    New Left Review, 1993.  A group obituary for Messiaen, Cage, Piazzola and Gillespie

  • On documentary: The Zapruder Quotient

    (Filmwaves No.4) Taking the 8mm footage of the Kennedy assassination as a starting point, this article investigates the level of truth and the ethical questions raised by documentaries

  • Play it again, or Old-time Cuban Music on the Screen

    (New Left Review, 1999) A review of two music films about ‘rediscovered’ Cuban music: Buena Vista Social Club and Lagrimas Negras.

  • Remembering Titon

    An obituary for Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

  • The Reuters Factor

    (Radical Science 16, 1985)
 On the beginnings of the modern information economy.

  • Talking Film with Fredric Jameson

  • The Soundcarrier

    (Entry in Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World, ed. John Shepherd et.al., Macmillan, 2003)

  • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Entrevisto por Michael Chanan

    (Encuentro 1, Primavera de 1996)

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