VHS Archives, Committed Media Praxis, and ‘Queer Cinema'

Authors

Alexandra Juhasz, CUNY Brooklyn CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter or Section

Publication Date

11-2021

Abstract

Committed media praxis is a doing as much as it is a knowing. Queerness is a manner of being as much as it is a politics, theory, or set of modish objects. This chapter about topics that are also processes—queer, media praxis, cinema—performs these across two acts: “Part 1: A Hesitant or Maybe Just Slightly Defiant Preamble,” is a creative unfolding, in the body of the text and as much so in its footnotes, of the author’s “queer feminist media praxis”: “Part 2: VHS Archives” is a demonstration of VHS Archives, a multi-sited, many-yeared project in experimental pedagogy, web-based archival engagement, and committed activist interventions into contemporary AIDS activism and queer media.

Comments

This chapter was originally published in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, edited by Ronald Gregg and Amy Villarejo, and available at DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190877996.013.22.