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Michael Chanan

documentary film-maker, writer and teacher

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Films

Detroit: Ruin of City A road movie about Detroit and the automobile industry, a documentary about making a documentary about a city.By Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz with music by Michael Nyman 92' 2005

 


Human Wrongs a film with Ariel Dorfman, 49mns, 2001

 

 

 


New Cinema of Latin America
This two-part documentary examines the social and artistic roots of the national cinemas of Latin America.

Cinema of the Humble, traces the evolution of its theoretical and aesthetic positions, and focuses on the development of cinema in Cuba and Nicaragua.

The Long Road examines the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, and the emergence of a new women's cinema.

Directed by Michael Chanan, 1983

Part I: color, 83 mins.
Part II: color, 85 mins.

Outstanding Nonprint Material, Choice (American Library Association)

"...a unique and important resource... [with] an enormous amount of information... an admirable, complex effort."--Library Journal

"...informative, thorough, and well-paced... Highly recommended for appropriate college classes, and for university libraries building collections on the history of cinema."-- Choice (American Library Association) Purchase or rent from Cinema Guild

A new version of these films is now available, re-edited down to a single film of 80 mns. Contact me for details.


Logic Lane (6 x 60mns, 1972), series of educational films on philosophy. Available on-line to participating universities in the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) MAAS Media Online project. See description and availability.

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