Dear ListServ Administrator: 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 Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu Provides a historical and theoretical context for understanding the role of subjectivity in documentary filmmaking. THE SUBJECT OF DOCUMENTARY Michael Renov University of Minnesota Press | 364 pages | 2004 ISBN 0-8166-3440-8 | hardcover | $59.95 ISBN 0-8166-3441-6 | paperback | $19.95 Visible Evidence Series, volume 16 Michael Renov focuses on how documentary filmmaking has become an important means for both examining and constructing selfhood. By looking at key figures in documentary filmmaking as well as noncanonical video art and avant-garde artists, Renov broadens the definition of what counts as documentary, and explores the intersection of the personal and political, considering how memory can create a way into asking troubling questions about identity, oppression, and resiliency. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool to Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay film, the video confession, and the personal Web page. For more information, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/renov_subject.html For more information on the Visible Evidence Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/visibleevidence.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu