Description
How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing? Why is public housing so often chosen as the backdrop for drama, horror, social critique, rebellion, violence, artistic creativity, explorations of race relations and political intrigue?
Home Screens answers these questions by examining the ways in which socialized housing projects around the world are represented on screen. The volume brings together a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars, who explore documentary and fictional portrayals of the architecture of public housing, and the communities that inhabit it, ranging from the 1950s to the present. Examining international film and media texts such as Die Architekten (1990), Swagger (2016), Cooley High (1975), Mee-Pok Man (1995), Treme (2010–2013), Mamma Roma (1962), The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011), and Below the Lion Rock (1972–1976), essays within this book consider public and private attitudes toward socialised housing, explaining how onscreen representations shape perceptions of these ubiquitous, often-stigmatized urban locations.
Table of Contents
I: Design, architecture and space
1. Uncanny architecture: Haunted structures in Candyman and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - Lorrie Palmer
2. Die architekten (1990): East/west ideology, concrete topography and the shadow of plattenbau - Heike Kumpf and Kirsten Kumpf Baele
3. Architect and amateur documentarian, Yitzhak Perlstein: Planning Israeli public housing (1960–70) - Daphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan
4. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962): INA-Casa public housing and remaking Rome's postwar social landscape - Alberto Lo Pinto
5. Aerial transitions: Drones and domestic space in the Banlieue - Isabelle McNeill
II: Spatialization of race, class and gender
6. Precarious homes in Britain and France – girlhood, escape and dance in Fish Tank and Divines - Anna Viola Sborgi
7. Cooley High, Cabrini-Green and early-onset rusting in Chicago - Michael D. Dwyer
8. Franklin Wong's Below the Lion Rock television series: Community dialogue in 1970s Hong Kong public housing - Chung-kin Tsang
9. Within the public housing flats: Interiorization of class drama in Singapore cinema - Meisen Wong and Chua Beng Huat
III: Home screens: Public housing in serialized television drama of The Wire, Treme, and Show Me a Hero
10. Ignoring women and communities of care: Public housing in The Wire - Kalima Young
11. 'People need to come home': Treme, Abandoned housing and post-Katrina New Orleans - Helen Morgan Parmett
12. Public housing, social problems and defensible space in David Simon's show me a hero - Steve Macek
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Product details
| Published | 16 Nov 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781350253964 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 24 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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