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Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema
Hispanic Urban Studies
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90,94 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 19.07.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319551913 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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<p>This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk to the Hilton International Hotel, the shopping center to the café and the Le Corbusier-designed Curutchet House to the gated community, architecture in these films evokes the political. Tracing architecture’s expression through six films produced since the 1990s—<i>Pizza birra faso</i>,<i> Mundo grúa</i>,<i> Nueve reinas, La niña santa, La antena </i>and<i> El hombre de al lado</i>—Amanda Holmes studies how architecture in cinema elicits political memory, underscores marginalization and class discrepancies, creates nostalgia for neighborhoods and re-evaluates existing communities. Generously illustrated and carefully researched, the book offers an in-depth reading of key contemporary Argentine films and a fresh architectural approach to film analysis.</p><p></p>
<p>1. Introduction.- 2. <i>Pizza birra faso</i>: Buildings of Hierarchy and Exclusion.- 3. Machinations of Urban Development and The Construction Industry an <i>Mundo grúa</i>.- 4. Properties of Glass in <i>Nueve reinas</i>.- 5. The Hotel Termas in <i>La niña santa</i>: Unstable Frames and Open Boundaries.- 6. Paper Architecture and Totalitarian Propaganda in <i>La antena</i>.- 7. The Architectural Promenade and the Cinematic Window in <i>El hombre de al lado</i>.- 8. Conclusion.</p>
<p><b>Amanda Holmes</b> is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and film at McGill University, Canada. She is author of <i>City Fictions: Language, Body and Spanish American Urban Space </i>(2007) and co-editor of <i>Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America </i>(2010).</p>
<p>This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk to the Hilton International Hotel, the shopping center to the café and the Le Corbusier-designed Curutchet House to the gated community, architecture in these films evokes the political. Tracing architecture’s expression through six films produced since the 1990s—<i>Pizza birra faso</i>,<i> Mundo grúa</i>,<i> Nueve reinas, La niña santa, La antena </i>and<i> El hombre de al lado</i>—Amanda Holmes studies how architecture in cinema elicits political memory, underscores marginalization and class discrepancies, creates nostalgia for neighborhoods and re-evaluates existing communities. Generously illustrated and carefully researched, the book offers an in-depth reading of key contemporary Argentine films and a fresh architectural approach to film analysis.</p>
Demonstrates the impact of architecture on a specific cinematic movement Argues that buildings rendered in film can uniquely critique political environments and outcomes Illustrates how films analyzed can sharply point and critique the continued dominance of economic hierarchies in contemporary Argentina Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
“Amanda Holmes offers a thorough and detailed analysis of six Argentine films, focusing particularly on the architectonic sites (and/or spaces) represented in the films; their history; their relationship with the films’ plot and aesthetics; and their political, economic, social, and cultural meanings in the context of these films. The visual analysis is indeed outstanding, and the arguments created in relation to these films are enlightening and stimulating.” (Gabriela Copertari, Case Western Reserve University, USA)<p></p>
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