Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Hispanic Urban Studies (HUS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema
Authors: Amanda Holmes
Series Title: Hispanic Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55191-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55190-6Published: 01 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85591-2Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55191-3Published: 19 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5830
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5849
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 162
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American Cinema and TV, Latin American Culture, Latin American Politics, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urbanism