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, Anne Klingbeil Advertising and Promotions Coordinator University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1938 <http://www.upress.umn.edu>http://www.upress.umn.edu A brilliantly unconventional investigation into the career of a visionary German filmmaker and the untimely death of art cinema. ULRIKE OTTINGER: The Autobiography of Art Cinema Laurence A. Rickels University of Minnesota Press | 232 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-5330-0 | hardcover | $66.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-5331-7 | paperback | $22.00 Laurence A. Rickels offers analyses of Ulrike Ottinger's films, as well as her photographic artworks, situated within a dazzling thought experiment centered on the history of art cinema. In addition to commemorating the death of a once-vital art form, this book also affirms Ottinger's defiantly optimistic turn toward the documentary film as a means of mediating present clashes between tradition and modernity, between the local and the global. Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German and comparative literature, as well as adjunct professor in the departments of art and film and media studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. His writing is renowned for its stylistic experimentation, and as a theorist he takes seriously the task of finding form for thought. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/rickels_ulrike.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: <http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html>http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org