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Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, teaches video production and film and video theory. She has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU and has taught courses at NYU, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, Claremont Graduate University, and Pitzer College, on women and film, feminist film, and women's documentary.

Dr. Juhasz has written multiple articles on feminist and AIDS documentary. Her current work is on and about YouTube, and other more radical uses of digital media.

Dr. Juhasz produced the feature films, The Owls, and The Watermelon Woman, as well as nearly fifteen educational documentaries on feminist issues like teenage sexuality, AIDS, and sex education.

Her first book, AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1996) is about the contributions of low-end video production to political organizing and individual and community growth. Her second book is comprised of transcribed interviews from her documentary about feminist film history, Women of Vision, with accompanying introductions (Minnesota University Press). Her third book, F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, edited with Jesse Lerner, is recently out from University of MN Press.

Dr. Juhasz has completed her first “book” on the web, Media Praxis: A Radical Web-Site Integrating Theory, Practice and Politics, and is finishing another about her work on YouTube (with MIT Press). She blogs on this and other projects at www.aljean.wordpress.com.

Documentaries by Dr. Alexandra Juhasz include SCALE, Dear Gabe, Video Remains,
Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video, and Released.

NOW SCREENING

the owls

The Owls

Digital Video, 70 mins.
Produced by
Alexandra Juhasz

Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Screened in 2010 at these festivals: Seoul, Tei-Pei, Torino, Seattle. Gay film festival screenings: LA, NY, Toronto, Salt Lake City, San Francisco.

Four aging lesbians accidentally kill a baby-dyke and live to suffer the consequences.

Alexandra Juhasz
c/o Pitzer College
Media Studies
1050 North Mills Ave.,
Claremont, CA 91711

ph: 909-607-4431
fax: 909-621-8481

alexandra_juhasz@pitzer.edu


SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age

A documentary video by Alexandra Juhasz featuring Antonia Juhasz 60 mins, 2007. Read More...

VIEW IT at snagfilms.com, or on YouTube.com
Airs on www.freespeech.org

Learn more, visit www.scalethedocumentary.com

Naming Prairie

Naming Prairie
Stills
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Naming Prairie is a 6 minute video by Alexandra Juhasz that celebrates Jewish family, tradition, and ritual. This joyous recounting of a lesbian couple’s babynaming ceremony for their daughter, Prairie, also introduces a supportive and diverse network of family and friends who participate in their re-thinking of Jewish life. Read more...
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2002.
VIEW IT at snagfilms.com

Dear Gabe

Stills & Video Clips
  Press Packet

Dear Gabe presents six professional women who seek to explain to the next generation-our children-how we manage (or do not) given the complex choices that are now open to us. Intimate dv-footage reveals women who bend traditional ideas of race, sexuality, religion, and gender into more equitable forms while still respecting "family values." Produced by Alexandra Juhasz. VIEW IT at snagfilms.com. Distributed by Cinema Guild

Video Remains

Artist's Statement

Video Remains: In 1993, Alex shoots an interview with her best friend Jim as he tries to recount his life as he is dying. In 2004, she re-works this haunted video, playing it in real-time but letting bleed in a host of present day interviewees who also reflect upon AIDS, death, activism, and video.   --   Order Now

Synopsis    :   Cast & Crew Bios   :   Press Packet

Released

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Released: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison. Completely unique in its format, this 28-minute dv documentary artfully merges five short videos to create a powerful - and empowering - forum. Read More...

Released   :   Photos   :   Streaming Video

SCALE, VIDEO REMAINS, and RELEASED
can be purchased through TransitMedia.net

Visit Alex at these
online communities:

WordPress Blog: aljean.wordpress.com

YouTube Class: youtube.com/mediapraxisme

Radical Media Site: www.mediapraxis.org


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Alexandra Juhasz   :   Pitzer College, Media Studies   :   1050 North Mills Ave., Claremont, CA  91711
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