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Feminist History Making and Video Remains: A Dialogue with Antoinette Burton

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In 1992, James Lamb, an off-Broadway actor, requested that his best friend, Alex Juhasz, videotape him. He was dying and wanted to explain his life; he wanted to be remembered. He was also probably suffering from AIDS dementia, so the interview is part rant, part performance piece, part eulogy. After he died in 1993, the 55-minute tape sat on her shelf. What was to be done with this video legacy?

Published in Jump Cut, 2006-12-01

Vol 48 (Winter 2006)

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