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The Pruitt-Igoe myth / [Unicorn Stencil presents ; in association with The Missouri History Museum ; directed by Chad Freidrichs ; produced by Chad Freidrichs, Jaime Freidrichs, Paul Fehler, Brian Woodman ; script by Chad & Jaime Freidrichs].
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pruitt-Igoe (Housing project : Saint Louis, Mo.)--History.
- Pruitt-Igoe (Housing project : Saint Louis, Mo.).
- Public housing--Missouri--Saint Louis--History.
- Public housing.
- Housing policy--Missouri--Saint Louis--History.
- Housing policy.
- Low-income housing--Government policy.
- Missouri--Saint Louis.
- Genre:
- documentary film.
- Documentary films
- Feature films
- History
- Internet videos
- Nonfiction films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Internet videos.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (53 min.)) : sound, color
- Edition:
- [Classroom version]
- Place of Publication:
- [Columbia, Missouri] : Unicorn Stencil, [2023?]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- It began as a housing marvel. 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. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which the projects resided, while tracing personal and poignant narratives of those who lived in them.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Jason Henry ; interviewees, Sylvester Brown, Robert Fishman, Joseph Heathcott, Brian King, Joyce Ladner, Ruby Russell, Valerie Sills, Jacquelyn Williams.
- Credits:
- Music by Benjamin Balcom.
- Notes:
- Credits from 83 minute version of film.
- Originally produced by First Run Features in 2011.
- Description based on online resource; viewed May 1, 2023.
- OCLC:
- 1378071248
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