Memories of Underdevelopment

‘Memories of Underdevelopment’ by T.G.Alea, (Michael Chanan, Ed.)
Rutgers University Press, 1990 (Rutgers Films in Print)

The book includes the script of the film, the novella by Edmundo Desnoes on which it is based, and a collection of readings about the film.

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

Cuba

☛ Cuba on Putney Debater ☙☙☙☙☙☙☙☙ Video Weekend Entertainment at the EICTV (International Film School in Cuba) This is the link for the EICTV. Have a look at this article from The Guardian Havana Report Report on the Havana Film Festival 1986, directed by Michael Chanan and Holly Aylett, for Channel Four. Festivals: LASA, Boston, 1986 Cuba from Inside Report on human rights in Cuba in 1988, directed by Michael Chanan, for Channel 4 ‘Dispatches’ Books ☛ 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 ☛ ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’ by T.G.Alea (Editor) Rutgers University Press, 1990 Includes the script of the film, the novella by Edmundo Desnoes on which it’s based, and a collection of readings about the film. Essays & short pieces ¶ 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. ¶ 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. ¶ Titon y lo intertextual (TEMAS no. 27: 63-5, octubre-diciembre de 2001) (Sorry, this link not working at the moment ¶ Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Entrevisto por Michael Chanan (Encuentro 1, Primavera de 1996) ¶ Obituary for Alberto Korda ¶ Obituary for Pastor Vega ¶ Obituary for Humberto Solas More links Juan Antonio García Borrero’s Blog:CINE CUBANO, la pupila insomne Blog by Enrique Pienda Barnet International Institute for the Study of Cuba Cuba Research Forum