CHÁVEZ: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

The Revolution Will Not be Televised is a powerful and dramatic film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez. It charts the seven-months run-up to the dramatic attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an eye-witness account of the coup d'etat and the extraordinary return to power of Chávez some 48 hours later. Unique footage of Chávez, the new icon of the Left and thorn in the side of the US administration, is assembled in this electrifying documentary. This book outlines how a popular and prize-winning documentary fast became controversial and subject to extensive attack including a formal BBC enquiry. It describes the production and reception of a documentary that shocked an entire country, in the context of the contemporary global economy of the media. The book and DVD of the film illuminate contemporary politics in Latin America and raise key questions for documentary filmmaking and film studies.

December 2008
192 pages

978-1-905674-74-9 (pbk)

£18.99

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Rod Stoneman is Director of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was previously Chief Executive of the Irish Film Board and a Deputy Commissioning Editor at Channel 4. He has also made a number of documentaries for television.

'The documentary and the book each provide vivid examples of the ways in which the production and reception of documentary as a media genre are inevitably shaped by any number of social and institutional contexts that are typically left unexamined by either commentators or audiences. As such, the combination of book and DVD (packaged together) is extremely useful, both for the issues raised in each of their narratives and for how these constructions can in turn be examined and debated.' - Craig Hight, Media International Australia