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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.

Introduction: 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

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