Michael Chanan

documentary film-maker, writer and teacher

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Documentary

☛ Blog entries at Putney Debater

¶ Documentary in Latin America (2005) (Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film)

¶ The Documentary Chronotope (2000) in Jump Cut

¶ The Maltese Double Cross by Alan Francovitch
(Vertigo Issue 4, Winter 95/95) A review of his film about the Lockerbie disaster.

¶ On documentary: The Zapruder Quotient
(Filmwaves No.4) (Versión en español) 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

¶ On William Raban's Thames Film

¶ Review of Kees Bakker, ed. Joris Ivens and the Documentary Context

☛ The Politics of Documentary BFI, 2007

"immensely readable... a thought-provoking perspective... a thoroughly enjoyable workout for the intellect" Vertigo Magazine

"consistently asks probing questions about the turbulent intersections of nonfiction film, cultural theory, and global politics" Cineaste

☛ The State of Documentary
in Vertigo Magazine Online

Postgraduate study in documentary

Please email me at M.Chanan(at)roehampton.ac.uk