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The American Who Electrified Russia
a documentary by Michael Chanan

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About

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Michael Chanan is Professor of Film & Video at Roehampton University, London. He is a seasoned documentary film-maker who made films on music for the BBC in the 1970s, and on Latin America for Channel Four in the 1980s. He is the author of books on cinema, including Cuban Cinema (2004) and The Politics of Documentary (2007), and on music, including Musica Practica (1994) and Repeated Takes (1995). His last film, also funded by the AHRC, was Detroit: Ruin of a City (with George Steinmetz, 2005).

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