Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Coordinator University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defines, examines, and elevates home video to its rightful place. THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME VIDEO James M. Moran University of Minnesota Press | 264 pages | 2002 ISBN 0-8166-3800-4 | hardcover | $54.95 ISBN 0-8166-3801-2 | paperback | $19.95 Visible Evidence Series, volume 12 In ThereÕs No Place Like Home Video, James Moran offers a history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and home videoÕs symbiotic relationship with television and film. He also investigates the broader field of video, taking on the question of medium specificity: the attempt to define its unique identity, to capture what constitutes its pure practice. For more information, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/moran_theres.html For more information about the Visible Evidence Series, visit its webpage: ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/visibleevidence.html