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Alexandra Juhasz

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author of scholarly books on fake (and real) documentaries including Beyond Story: A Community-Based Manifesto, with Alisa Lebow, and YouTube, Learning from YouTube (MIT Press, 2011). Her current work is on and about feminist Internet culture, fake news, and poetry: fakenews-poetry.org and with Nishant Shah, Really Fake! (Minnesota, 2021).

Representing Andrea Dworkin’s Controversial Voice on Screen

by Alexandra Juhasz
June 2, 2023June 6, 2023
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An interview with My Name Is Andrea director Pratibha Parmar about capturing the life and work of Andrea Dworkin in her unique hybrid film.

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Observing the Observers: How I Judged Documentaries and Learned to Teach None

by Alexandra Juhasz
June 25, 2021August 23, 2021
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Since 2017, I have had the distinct pleasure of serving as the chair of a preliminary judging committee for the Peabody Awards in broadcasting and digital media. Along with two graduate students

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