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The idea of subjectivity exerts a complicating pressure upon documentary theory and practice in three rather different ways. Whether making ethnographic, propagandistic, or educational films, documentarians performing arts isbn. In his groundbreaking study of autobiography in film and video as per the authors own description of his work, michael renov speaks of the emergence of a. Michael renov, the subject of documentary minneapolis, mn. To analyze or interrogate from the subject of documentary michael renov 3. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from haskell wexlers medium cool to jonas mekass lost, lost, lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay film, the video confession. A theory of documentary representation for animals therefore needs to be attuned to the supremacy of science, 27 which dominates how nonhumans are represented in factual media.
Renov has also worked with issues of autobiographical documentary, or as he also calls it, the firstperson film, since the early 2000s for example, renov 2004, renov 2008. The occluded subject robert carl craig a thesis presented in. The goal of the critique sessions is to help each other become better documentary filmmakers and visual storytellers. Whether making ethnographic, propagandistic, or educational films, documentarians have pointed the camera outward, drawing. John corner the idea of subjectivity exerts a complicating pressure upon documentary theory and practice in three rather different ways. Rhetoric and representation in non fiction film michael renov. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from haskell wexlers medium cool to jonas mekass lost, lost, lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay. Michael renovs the subject of documentary traces the recent history of autobiographical documentary in a book that contributes to scholarship in both documentary studies and autobiography studies. Michael renov, professor of critical studies and vice dean for academic affairs, is the author of hollywoods wartime woman. Hes the author of the subject of documentary2004, hollywoods wartime woman. By looking at key figures in documentary filmmaking as well as noncanonical video art and avantgarde artists, renov broadens the definition of what counts as documentary, and explores.