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Tourist Trap
Cuba as a Microcosm, Humanities, 2023
Artificial Studpidity: On the Alienation of intelligence
Free Associations, Number 88, Spring 2023
The BBC Question
Vertigo, 1993
Plight of the BBC
Vertigo, 1993
The Changing Geography of Third Cinema
The history of the concept of Third Cinema, from the introduction of the term by Solanas and Getino in 1968 to the 1990s.
Screen Special Latin American Issue Volume 38, number 4, Winter 1997.
The Chronic Crisis of British Cinema
Inaugural Lecture, UWE, 2003
Cinema in Latin America (1930-1960)
from Oxford History of World cinema, 1996
The Documentary Chronotope
from Jump Cut, no. 43, pp. 56-61, July 2000
Documentary Film Latin America
Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, 2005
The Economic Conditions of Cinema in Latin America
Third World Affairs, 1985
Latin American Documentary, A Political Trajectory
from A Companion to Latin American Cinema, 2017
Mahler in Venice?
Thomas Mann, Gustav Mahler, and Visconti’s ‘Death in Venice’ , Music & Musicians, 1971.
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
A group obituary for Messiaen, Cage, Piazzola and Gillespie, New Left Review, 1993.
On documentary: The Zapruder Quotient
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, Filmwaves No.4, 1998
Play it again, or Old-time Cuban Music on the Screen
A review of two music films about ‘rediscovered’ Cuban music: Buena Vista Social Club and Lagrimas Negras, New Left Review, 1999.
Remembering Titon
An obituary for Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Jump Cut, no.41, May 1997
The Reuters Factor
On the beginnings of the modern information economy. Radical Science 16, 1985
Talking Film with Fredric Jameson
from Fredric Jameson, A Critical Reader, 2004
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