Home Screens (eBook, ePUB)

Public Housing in Global Film & Television
Redaktion: Palmer, Lorrie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350253964
• Artikelnr.: 69607193

Autorenporträt

Lorrie Palmer is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Towson University, USA. She has published widely on film history, digital aesthetics, race, gender and technology in film and television, genre, and cinematic urban architecture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Public housing in global film and television - Lorrie Palmer
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
Further Viewing
Index