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SUMMARY:Access as Carceral Accessory: Documentary Ethics After Disability Justice - Pooja Rangan\, Professor\, English and Film Studies\, Amherst College
DESCRIPTION:Rangan’s talk\, drawn from a book coauthored with Brett Story\, examines the contradictions of documentary “access” as both moral imperative and coveted cinematic currency. Prompted by a case in which an Afghan informant was allegedly identified and killed after appearing in a U.S. war documentary\, it treats access to restricted or dangerous environments—especially prisons—as a governing and often compromised logic of production. Tracing its legal history back to Titicut Follies (1967)\, Rangan argues that carceral access neoliberalizes documentary by recasting harm as a matter of individual ethics rather than a collective struggle. She concludes by turning to disability justice and abolitionist efforts to reimagine access as collective and care-based. \nPooja Rangan is an award-winning scholar whose work rethinks the ethics and politics of documentary. She is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and a Visiting Scholar at Visualizing Abolition (UC Santa Cruz). Rangan is the author of The Documentary Audit (2025)\, Thinking with an Accent (as co-editor\, 2023)\, and Immediations (2017)\, co-editor of the Investigating Visible Evidence series at Columbia University Press\, and host of the Unmaking the Prison Image podcast. She is currently coauthoring a book with filmmaker Brett Story on documentary and carceral power. \n 
URL:https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/event/rangan/
LOCATION:2135 SSMS Building\, SSMS Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-4010\, United States
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