Michael Renov, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
213.740.3335
renov@usc.edu
LUC 209
Michael Renov’s teaching and research interests include documentary theory, autobiography in film and video, video art and activism, and representations of the Holocaust. Conducting a non-fiction film and television course, Dr. Renov 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 and
Collecting Visible Evidence.
In 1993, while Editor-in-Chief of
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Dr. Renov co-founded Visible Evidence, a series of international and highly interdisciplinary documentary studies conferences. In 2005, he co-programmed the 51st annual Robert Flaherty Seminar, a weeklong 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, and Brazil’s It’s All True.