Category Archives: Cultural Politics

Tales of a Video Blogger ebook

by michaelc Posted on 14 March 2013

Many thanks to RE.FRAMING ACTIVISM for publishing the ebook ‘Tales of a Video Blogger’, a collection of my recent writing about activist film-making. Download your copy here:http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/activistmedia/2013/03/free-e-book-tales-of-a-video-blogger-by-michael-chanan/

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Mourning Chávez on the Web

by michaelc Posted on 10 March 2013

It’s been fascinating seeing the response to the death of Hugo Chávez playing out on the web, for it not only confirms his status as a world historical figure, but because of the high symbolism of the event, clearly exposes … Continue reading →

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Remembering Stanley Forman

by michaelc Posted on 9 February 2013

For left film culture in Britain, Stanley Forman, who has died at the age of 91, was the archive man. His company, ETV, held a unique library of left-wing documentaries which amounted to the history of the twentieth century from … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural Politics, Documentary, Film matters | Tagged Documentary, Film, Film archive, Politics | 3 Comments

Transformations of Consumerism

by michaelc Posted on 18 January 2013

In the last few days, three major UK retail chains have gone bankrupt and are shutting up shop: Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster. Photography, music, and film rental. Pundits are saying that it’s inevitable as sales move to the web, and … Continue reading →

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Against ‘Impact’

by michaelc Posted on 10 November 2012

The other day we interviewed a couple of PhD scholarship candidates. Good applicants, with interesting and unusual research proposals. However, I was saddened when one of them started talking about ‘impact’. So, she’d found out about the institutional regime of … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic life, Cultural Politics | Tagged Academic life, Humanities, Media, Politics, Universities | 5 Comments

Transnational in Brussels

by michaelc Posted on 29 October 2012

We convened in Brussels, for a colloquium on transnationalism in Hispanic cinema, on the eve of the latest European summit. The juxtaposition was ironic and not irrelevant. On one side of town, the leaders of European transnationalism grappling with the … Continue reading →

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Screening at the House of Commons

by michaelc Posted on 16 October 2012

‘Secret City‘, the film I’ve made with Lee Salter about the City of London Corporation, received a preview screening at the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. This is more or less what Lee and I said to introduce it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Cultural Politics, Documentary, Notice | Tagged Capitalism, Documentary, London, Politics, Recession, Resistance | 2 Comments

Look – the New Putney Debates

by michaelc Posted on 9 October 2012

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A double loss

by michaelc Posted on 2 October 2012

The death in Buenos Aires of Argentine filmmaker and theorist Octavio Getino was reported on the same day as that of the historian Eric Hobsbawm in London. Worlds apart and different spheres of activity, perhaps, but both contributed in major … Continue reading →

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‘Secret City’

by michaelc Posted on 28 September 2012

It’s almost a year since anti-capitalist protestors, intending to set up camp in front of the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square under the banner of Occupy LSX, were ejected from the square and parked themselves instead in front of … Continue reading →

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Mourning Chávez on the Web

Remembering Stanley Forman

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