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Fraught Narratives, Archival Traces: Documentary Experiments in Carceral History

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This chapter explores the critical and creative process behind the production of a trio of experimental documentaries, focusing on two events in American prison history: the death by suffocation of eight Black convicts at a Texas prison farm in 1913, and the iconic 1971 Attica Prison uprising.

Keywords: Abolition Film ; African-American History ; Archival Filmmaking ; Civil Rights History ; Documentary ; Experimental Documentary ; Historical Documentary ; Political Documentary ; Prison Abolition ; Prison History ; Radical Film ; Social History

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Fraught Narratives, Archival Traces: Documentary Experiments in Carceral History
Intellect , 128 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387438_14
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  2. Farocki, H., , & Ujică, A. . (Directors). ( 1992). Videograms of a revolution [Film]. Facets Multimedia;.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Frost, M. O. . ( 1913). Court vindicates prison employees. Galveston Daily News.
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