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 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. "The Pitzer Media Studies Program brings together film and video history and theory with film and video production. This is very important to me, both as a teacher, and as a maker/scholar. " "We are also committed to the social, political, and aesthetic aspects of the media, another concern of mine."  -- Alexandra Juhasz 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 Stills Promotional Use 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
			View Naming Prairie, Dear Gabe, and Women of Vision at snagfilms.com.
			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
			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
			Order Now 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 fax: 909-621-8481   :   email: alexandra_juhasz@pitzer.edu   :   ph: 909-607-4431

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