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The Pruitt-Igoe myth
Title
The Pruitt-Igoe myth [videorecording] / a film by Chad Freidrichs ; director, Chad Freidrichs ; producers, Brian Woodman ... [et al.] ; screenwriters, Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs.
Published
[United States] : First Run Features, 2011.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
"Special Features. Bonus Film: 'More Than One Thing (Dir. Steve Carver; 30 min; 1969). DIrector's Commentary by Chad Freidrichs. Additional Interviews. Pruitt-Igoe Site Tour." ---from container.
Composer, Benjamin Balcom.
Official Selection, Full Frame Film Festival ; Official Selection, True/False Film Festival ; Official Selection, Los Angeles Film Festival ; Official Selection, Silverdocs Documentary Festival.
Summary
Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, 'the poor man's penthouse.' Two decades later, it ended in rubble, its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called the death of modernism. The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth of failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture, attack public assistance programs, and stigmatize public housing residents.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2013
Credits
Composer, Benjamin Balcom.
System details note
DVD ; NTSC.
Audience
Not rated.
Videorecording number
91500 First Run Features
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
First-Run Features (Firm)
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