Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker, writer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Roehampton. He has written extensively on film and video in Latin America and has filmed in most of the countries in the continent at intervals since the early 1980s, as well as writing on other film history topics and the social history of music, and making several films on capitalism in crisis. His latest film is Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes.

'Chanan's rich historical investigations of the evolving technologies of artistic production provide a fascinating new basis for a politics of culture'

• Series PrefacePreface1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production3. Cultural Commodification4. Countercurrents5. From Analog to Digital6. Creativity ReconsideredBibliographyNotes

Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker, writer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Roehampton. He has written extensively on film and video in Latin America and has filmed in most of the countries in the continent at intervals since the early 1980s, as well as writing on other film history topics and the social history of music, and making several films on capitalism in crisis. His latest film is Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes.

'Chanan's rich historical investigations of the evolving technologies of artistic production provide a fascinating new basis for a politics of culture'

• Series PrefacePreface1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production3. Cultural Commodification4. Countercurrents5. From Analog to Digital6. Creativity ReconsideredBibliographyNotes