Housing Film

Johnny 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.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements IntroductionPART I - DEFINITION, SOURCES, BEGINNING AND PERIODISATION1. The Housing Film: exposing processes, struggles, tensions and interactions2. The Housing Film: sources and beginnings3. Chronology and development of the housing filmPART II – CASE STUDIES4. Women making the housing film5. Television and the housing film6. Housing Film and high risePART III - THE DIGITAL: PERIOD AND CASE STUDY7. Housing Film in the digital ageAfterwordBibliographyFilmographyIndex

"The Housing Film gives a vivid new perspective on the monumental story of modern mass housing, through the dramatic lens of film - a medium tailor-made to project the rhetorical passions of the ‘housing problem’ - and skilfully exploits the idiosyncrasies of British debate as a springboard to explore global discourses of housing crisis."