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Title:
The Pruitt-Igoe myth / a film by Chad Freidrichs ; director, Chad Freidrichs ; producers, Brian Woodman [and others] ; screenwriters, Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs.
Publication Information:
[United States] : First Run Features, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
"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.
DVD ; NTSC.
Awards Note:
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.
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Audience:
Not rated.
Production Credits:
Composer, Benjamin Balcom.
OCLC Number:
ocn794177185
Availability:
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