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Virality Is Virility: Viral Media, Popularity, And Violence, Alexandra Juhasz
Virality Is Virility: Viral Media, Popularity, And Violence, Alexandra Juhasz
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The author takes ethical looks at viral images of black death and other violence wrought by fake media.
Setting The Terms Of Our Own Visibility A Conversation Between Sam Feder And Alexandra Juhasz On Trans Activist Media In The United States, Alexandra Juhasz
Setting The Terms Of Our Own Visibility A Conversation Between Sam Feder And Alexandra Juhasz On Trans Activist Media In The United States, Alexandra Juhasz
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In the summer of 2016, I sat down at my computer and Skyped with my friend and fellow queer media activist Sam Feder about their film, Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen. What follows is a highly edited transcript of our conversation, paying particular attention to Sam’s core research findings about trans representational history and how their findings might align with their processes and goals as a trans activist media maker committed to telling this complex story.
“In The Beginning Was Body Language” Clowning And Krump As Spiritual Healing And Resistance, Sarah S. Ohmer
“In The Beginning Was Body Language” Clowning And Krump As Spiritual Healing And Resistance, Sarah S. Ohmer
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In the neighborhood of HollyWatts in Los Angeles, dance allows a shift from existing as bodies presented as sites of threat and extinction to sources of spiritual empowerment. Clowning and Krump dancers—their subjectivity and their dancing bodies—negotiate survival from trauma and socioeconomic marginalization. I argue that the dancers’ performances act as embodied narratives of “re-membering in the flesh.” The performance acts as a spiritual retrieval and re-integration of traumatic memories and afflictions into memory through the body. Choreography and quotes from dancers support the claim that Krump and Clowning is “re-membering in the flesh” that enacts self-worth, self-defined sexuality, and …
Consistent Passion, Little Fanfare: Rbg, Elizabeth Toohey
Consistent Passion, Little Fanfare: Rbg, Elizabeth Toohey
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Review of the 2018 documentary RBG
Digital Aids Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses And Quilts, Alexandra Juhasz
Digital Aids Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses And Quilts, Alexandra Juhasz
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No abstract provided.
A Game Changer: Frederick Wiseman’S The Titicut Follies, William Blick
A Game Changer: Frederick Wiseman’S The Titicut Follies, William Blick
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It has become evident that film has the ability to invoke changes in a society. The social issue of the treatment of the mentally ill has always been the subject of films, although many films of past appear exploitative, sensationalist, crude, and ignorant of the realities of the issues being represented. In 1967, Frederick Wiseman’s film, The Titicut Follies, despite winning numerous awards, created such controversy that it became the only film to be banned in the United States for reasons other than obscenity and national security until 1991. The film revealed gross mistreatment of the mentally ill …
Documentary On Youtube: The Failure Of The Direct Cinema Of The Slogan, Alexandra Juhasz
Documentary On Youtube: The Failure Of The Direct Cinema Of The Slogan, Alexandra Juhasz
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No abstract provided.
Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, And Queer Archive Activism, Alexandra Juhasz
Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, And Queer Archive Activism, Alexandra Juhasz
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No abstract provided.
No Woman Is An Object: Realizing The Feminist Collaborative Video, Alexandra Juhasz
No Woman Is An Object: Realizing The Feminist Collaborative Video, Alexandra Juhasz
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Feminist video does collectivity exceedingly well. Certainly other politicized cultural movements and individuals work through this method, and, of course, feminists also produce work in collaboration in film and other media (as Julia Lesage testifies above). However, I assert that there is a profound natural mechanics to women's work in video that makes the medium's method, theory, and theme the interactive and politicized subjectification of the female sex. Film and patriarchy share the project of women's objectification-they make victims. Video and feminism see women as complex, worthy selves-they produce subjects. In feminist collaboration: video, the medium (inexpensive, debased, nonprofessional), the …
They Said We Were Trying To Show Reality -- All I Want To Show Is My Video: The Politics Of Realist Feminist Documentaries, Alexandra Juhasz
They Said We Were Trying To Show Reality -- All I Want To Show Is My Video: The Politics Of Realist Feminist Documentaries, Alexandra Juhasz
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No abstract provided.
Knowing Each Other Through Aids Video: A Dialogue Between Aids Activist Videomakers, Alexandra Juhasz, Juanita Mohammed
Knowing Each Other Through Aids Video: A Dialogue Between Aids Activist Videomakers, Alexandra Juhasz, Juanita Mohammed
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No abstract provided.