{"product_id":"home-screens-9781350253957","title":"Home Screens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorrie Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome Screens\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Public housing in global film and television - \u003ci\u003eLorrie Palmer \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eI: Design, architecture and space \u003c\/b\u003e 1.       Uncanny architecture: Haunted structures in \u003ci\u003eCandyman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Pruitt-Igoe Myth - Lorrie Palmer\u003c\/i\u003e 2.       \u003ci\u003eDie architekten \u003c\/i\u003e(1990): East\/west ideology, concrete topography and the shadow of \u003ci\u003eplattenbau - Heike Kumpf and Kirsten Kumpf Baele\u003c\/i\u003e  3.       Architect and amateur documentarian, Yitzhak Perlstein: Planning Israeli public housing (1960–70) - \u003ci\u003eDaphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan \u003c\/i\u003e 4.       Pier Paolo Pasolini’s \u003ci\u003eMamma Roma \u003c\/i\u003e(1962): INA-Casa public housing and remaking Rome’s postwar social landscape - \u003ci\u003eAlberto Lo Pinto\u003c\/i\u003e 5.       Aerial transitions: Drones and domestic space in the \u003ci\u003eBanlieue - Isabelle McNeill\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eII: Spatialization of race, class and gender \u003c\/b\u003e 6.        Precarious homes in Britain and France – girlhood, escape and dance in \u003ci\u003eFish Tank \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDivines - Anna Viola Sborgi\u003c\/i\u003e  7.        \u003ci\u003eCooley High\u003c\/i\u003e, Cabrini-Green and early-onset rusting in Chicago - \u003ci\u003eMichael D. Dwyer\u003c\/i\u003e 8.        Franklin Wong’s \u003ci\u003eBelow the Lion Rock \u003c\/i\u003etelevision series: Community dialogue in 1970s Hong Kong public housing - \u003ci\u003eChung-kin Tsang\u003c\/i\u003e 9.        Within the public housing flats: Interiorization of class drama in Singapore cinema - \u003ci\u003eMeisen Wong and Chua Beng Huat\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIII: Home screens: Public housing in serialized television drama of \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTreme\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShow Me a Hero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 10.    Ignoring women and communities of care: Public housing in \u003ci\u003eThe Wire - Kalima Young\u003c\/i\u003e 11.   ‘People need to come home’: \u003ci\u003eTreme\u003c\/i\u003e, Abandoned housing and post-Katrina New Orleans - \u003ci\u003eHelen Morgan Parmett\u003c\/i\u003e 12.   Public housing, social problems and defensible space in David Simon’s \u003ci\u003eshow me a hero - Steve Macek\u003c\/i\u003e  Further Viewing Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866596716887,"sku":"9781350253957","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350253957.jpg?v=1722279386","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/home-screens-9781350253957","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}