The Revolution Will Not Be Televised A Case Study of Politics and Media By Rod Stoneman

Thursday OCT 1, 8 pm
Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
A Case Study of Politics and Media
By Rod Stoneman


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-month run-up to the dramatic attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an eyewitness 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.

Written by one of the executive producers of the film, Rod Stoneman, the accompanying book outlines how a popular and prize-winning documentary soon came subject to extensive attack including a formal BBC enquiry. The volume looks at the production and reception of this controversial work 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.
Rod Stoneman is the Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway. Previously he served as Chief Executive of the Irish Film Board and a deputy commissioning editor of independent film and video at Channel 4. He has made several independent programmes for television.