| Repeated takes: A short history of recording and its effects on music M Chanan Verso, 1995 | 829 | 1995 |
| Politics of documentary M Chanan Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 | 510 | 2019 |
| Cuban cinema M Chanan U of Minnesota Press, 2004 | 357 | 2004 |
| Musica practica: The social practice of Western music from Gregorian chant to postmodernism M Chanan Verso, 1994 | 330 | 1994 |
| The dream that kicks: the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain M Chanan Routledge, 2003 | 298 | 2003 |
| Cuban Image M Chanan U of Minnesota Press, 2004 | 260 | 2004 |
| The changing geography of third cinema M Chanan Screen vol. 38 no. 4, 1997 | 159 | 1997 |
| Twenty-five years of the new Latin American cinema M Chanan British Film Institute, 1983 | 121 | 1983 |
| Rediscovering documentary: cultural context and intentionality M Chanan New Latin American Cinema 1, 201-217, 1997 | 56 | 1997 |
| From Handel to Hendrix: the composer in the public sphere M Chanan Verso, 1999 | 49 | 1999 |
| Chilean cinema M Chanan British Film Institute, 1976 | 49 | 1976 |
| The documentary chronotope M Chanan Jump Cut, 56-61, 2000 | 45 | 2000 |
| Labour power in the British film industry M Chanan (No Title), 1976 | 44 | 1976 |
| Filming the “invisible” M Chanan Rethinking documentary: New perspectives, new practices, 121-132, 2008 | 37 | 2008 |
| Memories of underdevelopment TG Alea Rutgers University Press, 1990 | 34 | 1990 |
| Video, activism and the art of small media M Chanan Transnational Cinemas 2 (2), 217-226, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| New cinemas in latin america M Chanan The Oxford History of World Cinema, 740-749, 1996 | 32 | 1996 |
| Cuba and civil society, or why Cuban intellectuals are talking about Gramsci M Chanan Nepantla: Views from South 2 (2), 387-406, 2001 | 31 | 2001 |
| El documental y el espacio público M Chanan Archivos de la Filmoteca, 68, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| Latin American cinema:: from underdevelopment to postmodernism M Chanan Remapping World Cinema:: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film, 38-51, 2006 | 28 | 2006 |
