Prof. Jennifer Cazenave Signs Advanced Book Contract with Columbia University Press

Professor Jennifer Cazenave‘s new book Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive is now under advanced contract with Columbia University Press.

The book moves from the 1930s to the 1980s, charting an entangled history of disability and media haunted by overlooked traumas of social exclusion and cultural erasure. One of the neglected archive the book draws on is the « street tapes » made by the video collective People’s Video Theater (PVT) in the early 70s, including six hours of footage shot at Camp Jened, a summer camp for teenagers and adults with disabilities in Upstate New York. Some of the footage PVT made in collaboration with the campers was used in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp (2020).

Congratulations to Prof. Cazenave on this achievement!