Michael Renov

Documentary expert specializing in contemporary documentary filmmaking
  • Associate dean of academic affairs, USC School of Cinematic Arts
  • Professor of critical studies
Office: (213) 740-3335

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)

Additional Information

  • 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)