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ABSTRACT
Exploring the conditions and desire for political documentary at the present conjuncture, drawing on the author’s experience as a London-based freelance documentarist since the 1970s and especially, since the turn of the millennium, making documentaries from a base within academia.
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Notes
1 The episode can be seen in the chapter “Defending Libraries” in Chronicle of Protest.
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Michael Chanan
Michael Chanan is Professor of Film and Video at the University of Roehampton. Both documentarist and scholar, his latest film is ‘Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes’. He is also at work on a book about cultural commodities and aesthetic labor.