“[ATTACK THE BLOCK]’s young protagonists rewrite the negative stereotypes linked to poor urban youth in which decay, criminality, and pathology conflate inner city residents with their environment. The gang disrupts the discourses that frame the precise “genre” of city space—public housing—that most reflects their marginal social status within it. … [The] demolishing of common ideological associations around “urban poverty” begins when the audience starts seeing the teens clearly, stripped of the anonymity of stereotypes and facilitated by the camera and by the tower block itself.“ (Lorrie Palmer, Attack the Block: monsters, race, and rewriting South London’s outer spaces)
THEBUILTENVIRONMENTINMEDIA (🧱) ATTACK THE BLOCK (2011), dir. Joe Cornish
— and the public housing in South London
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