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Home Screens

Home Screens

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2025-06-26
Publication Date:
2025-06-26
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350253944
ISBN13:
9781350253940
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Weight:
453 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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