Alcatraz and the Contemporary Carceral Landscape: A Counter-Visual Analysis

This thesis engages in a counter-visual ethnography, using Alcatraz as a site to examine the workings of U.S. memorialization practices and visuality, specifically regarding carcerality. In examining the U.S.’s most popular site of penal tourism, this ethnography aims to provide new vantages from wh...

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Main Author: Silver, Lauren F
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/825
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1907&context=scripps_theses