For the last twenty years, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp has not just been a military prison and security facility, but also a site of media production. This book looks at how the US Department of Defense has struggled, and often failed, to control the public perception of these media objects through complex, layered framing devices.

Guantánamo Frames

For the last twenty years, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp has not just been a military prison and security facility, but also a site of media production. Films, photographs, and documents have continued to emerge from the camp and become the focus of fierce legal and political battles, as well as intense moral anguish. This book looks at how the US Department of Defense has struggled, and often failed, to control the public perception of these media objects through complex, layered framing devices. It traces how small ruptures in the Department’s framings have provided openings for critical interventions from various fields – ranging from journalism and human rights law to the arts. Guantánamo Frames thus lays the groundwork for a critical reappraisal of the entanglement of media, violence, and the security state in a broader sense.

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Publishing Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
276
Print Edition Price
€ 29.90 RRP
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CC BY-SA 4.0
ISBNs
978-3-95796-206-5 (Print)
978-3-95796-207-2 (PDF)
DOI
10.14619/2065
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The Author

Rebecca Boguska is a Film and Media Studies scholar. She was a recipient of the Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Brown University and University of Passau), and is a former member of the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her postdoctoral research project, “Watery Assemblages,” focuses on contemporary coastal research centers and research practices related to the scientific investigation of water movements. 

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