Unmaking the Prison Image is a three-episode podcast series from Visualizing Abolition exploring the role documentary can play in imagining a world without prisons. Hosted by Pooja Rangan, author of Immediations and The Documentary Audit, and co-author with Brett Story of the forthcoming Why Look at Prisons?, the series brings together filmmakers, scholars, and system-impacted artists and organizers who are rethinking how prisons are represented, with an eye toward collective liberation.
Pooja Rangan is an award-winning documentary scholar and Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. She is the author of The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability, Thinking with an Accent (coedited), and Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary. She is currently co-authoring a book on documentary and carceral world-building with filmmaker Brett Story, titled Why Look at Prisons.
Unmaking the Prison Image is a production of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative at the University of California, Santa Cruz, directed by Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson. Podcast produced by Alex Moore, Louise Leong, and Pooja Rangan. Eric “Maserati E” Abercrombie is our editor and sound designer.
Theme music for Visualizing Abolition is Pray by Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science. Our cover art features an image from Christopher Harris’s still/here.
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