Alexandra Juhasz
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She is a core faculty member in the Interactive Technology & Pedagogy and Film & Media Cultures Certificate Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center.She has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU (1991) and attended the Whitney Independent Studio program as a videomaker (1988).
Dr. Juhasz taught at Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate University for over twenty years about YouTube, media archives, activist media, documentary, and feminist film and video as well as media production, history and theory. At CUNY she chaired the Film Department.
She writes about and makes feminist, queer, fake, and AIDS documentary. Her current work attends to pandemic media, fake news poetry, online feminist pedagogy, and other more radical uses of digital media and their archives.
Her work as media artist, curator, and writer engages with linked social justice commitments, including COVID-19, AIDS, lack queer and lesbian media, feminist and queer/trans film, and activist archives and collectives. She publishes about her cultural and political commitments in scholarly and more public platforms including Hyperallergic, BOMB, MS, X-tra, and Lamda Literary Review.
Books :
Dr. Juhasz’s first book, AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1996) considers the contributions of low-end video production to political organizing and individual and community growth.
Women of Vision (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) is a companion piece to Juhasz’s 1998 documentary of the same name. The book presents the complete interviews, allowing readers to hear directly the voices of these articulate, passionate women in an interactive remembering of feminist media history. Juhasz’s introduction provides a historical, theoretical, and aesthetic context for the interviews.
An earlier large-scale digital effort is Media Praxis: A Radical Web-Site Integrating Theory, Practice and Politics.
Recent Projects :
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Featured Interviews :
New DIY Documentary Honors AIDS Media Activism, Love, Loss, and Queer Community
In conversation with Thomas Allen Harris: DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY, Criterion Collection
The Power of Storytelling with Asma Naimi, podcast
Narrative Feature Films :
The Watermelon Woman 20th Year Re-Master and Re-Release
The OWLS
Dr. Juhasz produced the narrative feature films, The Owls (2010) and The Watermelon Woman (1996), as well as nearly fifteen educational documentaries on feminist issues like teenage sexuality, AIDS, and sex education.
Featured Documentaries :
Holding Patterns Video Installation
Please Hold
I Want to Leave a Legacy: The video/activism of Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski
Beyond Story: An Online Community-Based Video Manifesto
DiAna’s Hair Ego REMIX
COMPULSIVE PRACTICE
SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age
Video Remains
View Naming Prairie, Dear Gabe, and Women of Vision at vimeo.com.
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