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Media Studies

Resolutionsprovides, by far, the best, boldest, and most thorough account to date of video art and activism, practice, and theory. The long-awaited follow-up to a project conducted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), this volume presents original articles by many of the most interesting video artists, filmmakers, and critical theorists writing today. Their subjects, from video pedagogy to emerging technologies, are many and varied and together constitute a clear and complete picture of the state of the medium.

Constructed like an inquiry into newly forming video practice, the collection at once interweaves and questions a series of relationships among politics, popular culture, artistic intervention, and social practices. The often provocative essays, on topics ranging from video porn to Geraldo Rivera to lesbian representation to the politics of video memory, contribute significantly to a much needed reconceptualization of the electronic medium.

Contributors: Rosanna Albertini, Raymond Bellour, John Belton, Gregg Bordowitz, Ron Burnett, Jacques Derrida, Sara Diamond, Monica Frota, Bill Horrigan, David E. James, Laura Kipnis, Tetsuo Kogawa, Judith Mayne, James M. Moran, Michael Nash, Chon A. Noriega, Bérénice Reynaud, Marlon Riggs, Marita Sturken, Christine Tamblyn, Maureen Turim, and Patricia R. Zimmermann.

Michael Renov is professor of critical studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. Erika Suderburg is a video artist and associate professor in the Department of Studio Art at the University of California, Riverside.

University of Minnesota Press
Printed in U.S.A.
Cover image from Electronic Diary: Binge (1988) by Lynn Hershman, courtesy of the artist
Book and cover design by Jeanne Lee
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Contemporary Video Practices
Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg, editors