*Home Screens: Public Housing in Global Film & Television* Book Talk SCMS U/G/A SIG 24-25 Virtual Events
The Urbanism/Geography/Architecture Scholarly Interest Group at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) invites you to the first of our 2024-2024 online book talks:
Home Screens: Public Housing in Global Film & Television (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Join us for a conversation featuring editor Lorrie Palmer and contributors Michael Dwyer, Heidi Kumpf, Steven Macek, Anna Viola Sborgi, Chung-kin Tsang and Kalima Young!
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), Fish Tank (2009) 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.
Urbanism/Geography/Architecture Scholarly Interest Group
Society of Cinema and Media Studies
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