The Dream That Kicks

The Dream That Kicks : The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain
Routledge, Second Edition, 1996

‘An extraordinary study of the cultural/ideological “site” of cinema at the moment of its birth.’ Encylclopaedia Britanica

‘It confronts – head on – the most basic questions of the aesthetics, economics, technology and ideology of cinema.’ Wide Angle

‘Not only is the book a careful study of early British cinema but it is equally an important exploration of what it means to write film history.’ Cine Tracts

Cuban Cinema

Cuban Cinema University of Minnesota Press, 2004

This is the second edition of ‘The Cuban Image: Cinema and Cultural Politics in Cuba’ (BFI/Indiana University Press,1984)

Read a review in Afterimage

Forthcoming

Neoliberalism and Global Cinema Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique
Edited by Jyotsna Kapur, Keith Wagner
Using film, this study investigates the cultural politics of neoliberalism. Includes Michael Chanan, ‘Cuban Cinema: A Case of Accelerated Underdevelopment’
Forthcoming, Routledge, April 2011