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Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema
Hispanic Urban Studies
ISBN/EAN: 9783319551906
Umbreit-Nr.: 2007507
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: x, 162 S., 24 s/w Illustr., 30 farbige Illustr., 1
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 01.08.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
- Zusatztext
- In this book, Amanda Holmes analyzes how architecture in select Argentine films from the last two decades serves to contest the socioeconomic status quo developed from a combination of the atrocities of dictatorship, socially-imposed classist hierarchies, and zealous neoliberal policies. Drawing on the fundamental relationship between architecture and film that has been heralded throughout the twentieth century by scholars and practitioners of cinema, architecture, and the humanities; Holmes argues that New Argentine Cinema serves as a paradigm of this essential relationship between architecture and film. In this cinema, buildings and architectural concepts are embedded to propel political critiques.
- Kurztext
- 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-Pizza birra faso, Mundo grúa, Nueve reinas, La niña santa, La antena and El hombre de al lado-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.
- Autorenportrait
- Amanda Holmes is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and film at McGill University, Canada. She is author of City Fictions: Language, Body and Spanish American Urban Space (2007) and co-editor of Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America (2010).