Home Screens

Name: Home Screens
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SKU: 9781350253957
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Public Housing in Global Film & Television

Summary

Home Screens explores how public housing is depicted in film and television worldwide. It investigates why socialised housing frequently serves as the setting for diverse genres including drama, horror, social critique, and political intrigue. The book presents interdisciplinary analyses of both documentary and fictional portrayals of public housing and its residents from the 1950s onward, covering works such as Die Architekten, Swagger, Cooley High, and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. The essays reveal how these onscreen representations influence public perceptions of often-stigmatised urban housing environments.
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Home Screens

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This book is ideal for readers interested in film studies, urban studies, social housing policy, and cultural representations of housing. Scholars and students exploring the intersection of architecture, media, and social issues will find it particularly valuable.

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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 socialised 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-stigmatised urban locations.

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Praised for its broad and necessary examination, Home Screens is recognised for its compelling analysis of the image of public housing across global media. Erica Stein of Vassar College highlights the book's ability to challenge and redefine perceptions of home through film and television. Merrill Schleier from the University of the Pacific commends the contributors for deftly exploring tenants' efforts to create a sense of home within precarious housing spaces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350253957

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 December 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 24 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Lorrie Palmer

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 296

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.