The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies

Michael Renov, Professor of Critical Studies and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, is the author of Hollywood's Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology and The Subject of Documentary, editor of Theorizing Documentary, and co-editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Collecting Visible Evidence, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies and Cinema's Alchemist: The Films of Peter Forgacs. In 1993, Renov co-founded Visible Evidence, a series of international and highly interdisciplinary documentary studies conferences that have, to date, been held on four continents. He is one of three general editors for the Visible Evidence book series at the University of Minnesota Press, which has published 25 volumes on various aspects of nonfiction media since 1997. In 2005, he co-programmed the 51st annual Robert Flaherty Seminar, a week-long gathering of documentary filmmakers, curators and educators, creating 20 screening programs and filmmaker dialogues on the theme "Cinema and History." In addition to curating documentary programs around the world, he has served as a jury member at documentary festivals including Sundance, Silverdocs, the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Brazil's It's All True and the International Environmental Festival of Film and Video, also in Brazil. He has taught graduate seminars at the University of Stockholm and Tel Aviv University and has led documentary workshops in Jordan for the Royal Film Commission and in Cyprus. Renov's teaching and research interests include documentary theory, autobiography in film and video, video art and activism and representations of the Holocaust.

Introduction - James Donald Hooray for a Mickey Mouse Subject! PART ONE: MAPPING TRADITIONS North America - Dana Polan European Film Scholarship - Ian Aitken China - Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Paola Voci Cinema, Politics and Scholarship Our Films, Their Films - Brian Shoesmith Some Speculations on Writing Indian Film History Film Research in Argentina - David Oubina Cinema Studies in Brazil - Ismail Xavier Y Tu Critica Tambien - Carlos A. Gutierrez The Development of Mexican Film Studies at Home and Abroad Australia - Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives - Bhaskar Sarkar PART TWO: DISCIPLINARY DIALOGUES Film and Philosophy - Murray Smith Difficult Relations - Hamish Ford Film Studies and Continental European Philosophy Cinema and Art History - Angela Dalle Vacche Film Has Two Eyes Film and History - Vanessa R. Schwartz Mass Media, Anthropology and Ethnography - Faye Ginsburg Psychoanalysis and Cinema - Patrick Fuery The Political Economy of Film - Tom O'Regan TV's Next Season? - Lynn Spigel Film and Cultural Studies - Graeme Turner PART THREE: PARADIGMS IN PERSPECTIVE The Hollywood Industry Paradigm - Ruth Vasey Formalist Tendencies in Film Studies - Warren Buckland The Persistence of the Avant-Garde - Michael O'Pray Film and (as) Modernity - Julian Murphet Cinema/Ideology/Society - Jane Gaines The Political Expectations of Film Theory `We Do Not Die Twice' - George Kouvaros Feminist Perspectives in Film Studies - Alison Butler Realism and Cinema Authors and Auteurs - John Caughie The Uses of Theory Where Sound Is - Philip Brophy Locating the Absent Aural in Film Theory The Question of Genre in Cult Film and Fandom - Matt Hills Between Contract and Discourse Film Audiences - Jostein Gripsrud and Erlend Lavik Re-Mapping Bollywood Cinema - Vijay Mishra Film in the Context of Digital Media - Scott McQuire