Michael Renov
Documentary expert specializing in contemporary documentary filmmaking
Associate dean of academic affairs, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Professor of critical studies
Contact at: (213) 740-3335 or renov@usc.edu
Expertise:
- political documentary
- autobiography (in film and video)
- political cinema
- principles of documentary theory, such as "truth" and "objectivity"
- avant-garde film and video
- ethnographic film
- alternative media (including video art and activism, independent film)
- Author, The Subject of Documentary (2004) and Hollywood's Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology (1988)
- Editor, Theorizing Documentary (1993)
- Co-editor, Collecting Visible Evidence (1999), a collection of essays on documentary studies; and Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996)
- Series editor, Visible Evidence book series (1997)
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