Michael Chanan

documentary film-maker, writer and teacher

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¶ End of the BFI as we know it?

¶ The Chronic Crisis of British Cinema (Inaugural Lecture, UWE, 2003)

¶ Iran: Fajr Film Festival Diary 2006

¶ Politics of Aesthetic Education
Looks at the legacy of 18 years of Tory government in the field of the moving image within higher education, following the huge expansion and popularity of media education combined with the depletion of funds and the new managerialism which now rules our universities. 

¶ The Reuters Factor   (Radical Science 16, 1985)
On the beginnings of the modern information economy. 

¶ Two articles on the BBC from Vertigo, 1993
The BBC Question
The Plight of the BBC