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Book SynopsisLorrie 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
