{"product_id":"the-housing-film-9781399520331","title":"The Housing Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Housing Film\u003c\/i\u003e examines how a century of realities and possibilities in domestic living have been profiled and foregrounded through studies and representations of Housing in the medium of Film. The filmic investigations, analysis and expos?s of homes and our way of occupying them, and their possible effect on behaviour, in documentaries like \u003ci\u003eHousing Problems \u003c\/i\u003e(1935) and Paul Sng's \u003ci\u003eDispossession: The Great Council Housing Swindle \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), propaganda films like \u003ci\u003eCumbernauld: Town for Tomorrow \u003c\/i\u003e(1970), dramas like \u003ci\u003eCathy Come Home \u003c\/i\u003e(1966) and features like \u003ci\u003eHigh Rise\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), to understand how closely the tow - film and housing - have grown and developed together, each conditioning the understanding and the range of possibilities of the other. \u003cbr\u003eThis study will examine how these histories are in fact intertwined, will analyse and assess the mutual effects of Housing and Film and propose and define a specific category of 'The Housing Film.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnny Rodger is Professor of Urban Literature at Glasgow School of Art. His most recent publications include Glasgow Cool of Art: 13 books of fire at the Mackintosh Library, Key Essays: Mapping the Contemporary in Literature and Culture and The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901008744722,"sku":"9781399520331","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dba0f66-6c3d-4876-8578-2d66287ee959.jpg?v=1738408895","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-housing-film-9781399520331","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}