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Tourist Trap
Cuba as a Microcosm
Artificial Studpidity: On the Alienation of intelligence
Free Associations, Number 88, Spring 2023
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)
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)
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.
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)