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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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