The dis­ser­ta­tion pro­ject of our alumni from the first cohort Re­becca Bo­guska is avail­able at meson press.

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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