Home Screens: Public Housing in Global Film & Television by Lorrie Palmer Hardco

Home Screens

by Lorrie Palmer

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.

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Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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 Palmer2. Die architekten (1990): East/west ideology, concrete topography and the shadow of plattenbau - Heike Kumpf and Kirsten Kumpf Baele3. 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 Pinto5. Aerial transitions: Drones and domestic space in the Banlieue - Isabelle McNeillII: Spatialization of race, class and gender 6. Precarious homes in Britain and France – girlhood, escape and dance in Fish Tank and Divines - Anna Viola Sborgi7. Cooley High, Cabrini-Green and early-onset rusting in Chicago - Michael D. Dwyer8. Franklin Wong's Below the Lion Rock television series: Community dialogue in 1970s Hong Kong public housing - Chung-kin Tsang9. Within the public housing flats: Interiorization of class drama in Singapore cinema - Meisen Wong and Chua Beng HuatIII: Home screens: Public housing in serialized television drama of The Wire, Treme, and Show Me a Hero10. Ignoring women and communities of care: Public housing in The Wire - Kalima Young11. 'People need to come home': Treme, Abandoned housing and post-Katrina New Orleans - Helen Morgan Parmett12. Public housing, social problems and defensible space in David Simon's show me a hero - Steve MacekFurther ViewingIndex

Review

This wide-ranging and very necessary volume grapples with what it means for public housing to become an image. Across twelve strikingly argued chapters, Palmer and her contributors show how film and television not only materially contribute to that image on a global scale, but how they can iterate, complicate, or question it and, in doing so, redefine our image of the home. -- Erica Stein, Vassar College, USA
Home Screens is a must read for anyone interested in government-financed housing in both material reality and cinematic space. Palmer and her contributors deftly examine how diverse tenants try to create a sense of "home" in its contained, often precarious spaces. -- Merrill Schleier, University of the Pacific, USA

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How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing? Spanning a wide, international range of film and media texts, this book examines public and private attitudes toward socialised housing, explaining how onscreen representations shape perceptions of these ubiquitous, often-stigmatized urban locations.

Details ISBN1350253952 Author Lorrie Palmer Pages 296 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781350253957 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-12-14 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Public Housing in Global Film & Television Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Lorrie Palmer Illustrations 24 bw illus Audience Professional & Vocational UK Release Date 2023-12-14 AU Release Date 2024-01-10

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