The Pruitt-Igoe myth
DVD - 2011
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary films
- Published
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[United States] :
First Run Features
2011
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- "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.
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD ; NTSC.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Awards
- Official Selection, Full Frame Film Festival ; Official Selection, True/False Film Festival ; Official Selection, Los Angeles Film Festival ; Official Selection, Silverdocs Documentary Festival.
- Production Credits
- Composer, Benjamin Balcom.