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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 Info. [United States] : First Run Features, [2012]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 363.58 FRE    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD ; NTSC.
Credits Composer, Benjamin Balcom.
Audience Not rated.
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.
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.
Awards Official Selection, Full Frame Film Festival ; Official Selection, True/False Film Festival ; Official Selection, Los Angeles Film Festival ; Official Selection, Silverdocs Documentary Festival.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Pruitt-Igoe (Housing project : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Public housing -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History.
Low-income housing -- Government policy -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History.
Added Author Freidrichs, Chad.
Woodman, Brian.
Freidrichs, Jaime.
Balcom, Benjamin.
First-Run Features (Firm)
Standard No. 720229915090
Music No. 91500 First Run Features
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