: Books :
Media Praxis: A Radical Anthology Integrating Theory, Production and Practice (in development as a web-based publication with MediaCommons for 2008) F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing Ed. with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media Transcripts from 20 interviews in feminist film and video history. (University of Minnesota Press, 2001). AIDS TV Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1995).

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The first sustained critique of the mockumentary. Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs" such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception.		F Is for Phony Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative. Contributors: Steve Anderson, Catherine L. Benamou, Mitchell W. Block, Luis Buñuel, Marlon Fuentes, Craig Hight, Charlie Keil, Alisa Lebow, Eve Oishi, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Gregorio C. Rocha, Jane Roscoe, Catherine Russell, Elisabeth Subrin. Alexandra Juhasz is professor of media studies at Pitzer College. Jesse Lerner is associate professor of media studies at Pitzer College. Visible Evidence Series, volume 17 244 pages | 25 halftones | 7 x 10 | August 2006 ISBN 0-8166-4251-6 | Paperback $20.00 ISBN 0-8166-4250-8 | Cloth $60.00

Barbara Hammer		Women of Vision Histories in Feminist Film and Video Alexandra Juhasz, Editor Alexandra Juhasz asked twenty-one women to tell their stories-women whose names make up a who's who (and who will be) of independent and experimental film and video. What emerged in the resulting conversations is a compelling (and previously underdocumented) history of feminism and feminist film and video, from its origins in the fifties and sixties to its apex in the seventies, to today.

Legends and rising stars of feminist film and video tell their stories.
Women of Vision 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. These subjects have all shaped late twentieth-century film and video in fundamental ways, either as artists, producers, distributors, critics, or scholars, and they all believe that media are the most powerful tools for effecting change. Yet they are a very diverse group, with widely varying personal and professional backgrounds. By presenting their interviews together, Juhasz shows the differences among those involved in feminist media, but also the connections among them, and the way in which the field has been enriched by their sharing of knowledge and power. In the end, Juhasz not only records these women's careers, she broadens our understanding of feminism and shows how feminist history and documentary are made. Interviewees: Pearl Bowser, Margaret Caples, Michelle Citron, Megan Cunningham, Cheryl Dunye, Vanalyne Green, Barbara Hammer, Kate Horsfield, Carol Leigh, Susan Mogul, Juanita Mohammed, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Eve Oishi, Constance Penley, Wendy Quinn, Julia Reichert, Carolee Schneemann, Valerie Soe, Victoria Vesna, Yvonne Welbon. $22.95 paper ISBN 0-8166-3372-X $68.95 cloth ISBN 0-8166-3371-1 280 pages | 21 black-and-white photos | 7 x 10 | 2001 University of Minnesota Press, Visible Evidence Series, volume 9

“The most powerful section of the text is an auto-ethnographic account of the Women's AIDS Video Project (WAVE). Through beautifully honest self-reflection and analysis of the group's dynamics and products, Juhasz illustrates the value of community-focused education initiatives and presents powerful evidence for the need to change the one-size-fits-all approach of public HIV/AIDS education policy. . . . [AIDS TV] ought to be required reading for all students of the politics of sexuality, reproductive freedom, and community-based education.” Harry C. Denny, Signs		AIDS TV Identity, Community, and Alternative Video Alexandra Juhasz Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression—an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon—why and how video has become the medium for so much AIDS activism—she also tries to make sense of the bigger picture: How is this work different from mainstream television? How does it alter what we think of the media’s form and function? The result is an eloquent and vital assessment of the role media activism plays in the development of community identity and self-empowerment. 328 pages (1995) 22 black and white illustrations ISBN 0-8223-1695-1 | Paperback - $22.95 ISBN 0-8223-1683-8 | Cloth - $79.95

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