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 Demonstrates how avant-garde films better reflect the complexity of history than conventional film. SHADOWS, SPECTERS, SHARDS: Making History in Avant-Garde Film Jeffrey Skoller University of Minnesota Press | 264 pages | 2005 ISBN 0-8166-4231-1 | hardcover | $74.95 ISBN 0-8166-4232-X | paperback | $24.95 Shadows, Specters, Shards examines experimental films, including work by Eleanor Antin, Ernie Gehr, and Jean-Luc Godard, that take up events such as the Holocaust, Latin American independence struggles, and urban politics. In his discussion of avant-garde film of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Jeffrey Skoller reveals how a nuanced understanding of the past is linked to the artistry of image making and storytelling. ³A passionate and close reading of a body of previously neglected avant-garde films, which in Jeffrey Skoller's hands are revealed to be at the cutting edge of some of the most significant social and intellectual debates of the last three decades. Shadows, Specters, Shards is a timely and provocative contribution to film culture and scholarship.² ‹Yvonne Rainer For more information, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/skoller_shadows.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