JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

Feminist history making and Video Remains

Alexandra Juhasz

Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, and Chair of the Cultural Studies Department at the Claremont Graduate University. Her scholarly and video work focuses upon committed uses of the media. She is the author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke 1995), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media, (Minnesota 2001), and is co-editor, with Jesse Lerner, of the anthology F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing (Minnesota, forthcoming, 2006). She has written extensively on feminist, queer and activist video, as well as on documentary.

Her media work includes the AIDS videos:

  • WOMEN AND AIDS (1988 with Jean Carlomusto),
  • PROSTITUTES RISK AND AIDS (1988),
  • A TEST FOR THE NATION: WOMEN, CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AIDS (1988)

all of which were for GMHC’s LIVING WITH AIDS SHOW, and

  • SAFER AND SEXIER: A COLLEGE STUDENT’S GUIDE TO SAFER SEX (with The Lay Techs Entertainment Group, 1993),
  • WE CARE: A VIDEO FOR CARE PROVIDERS OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY AIDS (with the Women’s AIDS Video Enterprise, WAVE, 1990), and
  • VIDEO REMAINS (2005).

She also directed the feature documentaries,

  • DEAR GABE (2003),
  • WOMEN OF VISION (2001),

and produced the feature narrative film, THE WATERMELON WOMAN (Dir: Cheryl Dunye, 1995).

For more on her work go to: http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~ajuhasz