New McElwee Book

Since I wrote the review last week of the first book dedicated to Ross McElwee's works, I've been thinking a lot about the Southern film maker. The book contains segments of interviews McElwee has done over the years and an article he wrote for a Paris film maker magazine. He continually talks about the difficulty of WRITING his narrative tracks. It's a slow and laborious process for him. Anyway, the book is definitely worth reading and it's about time somebody wrote a book about McElwee. He invented the personal film genre. The book is called Landscapes of the Self: The Cinema of Ross McElwee.