Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973Temple University Press, 2004 - 287 páginas "A sweeping account of one of the cultural centers of Latin America, Specular City tells the history of Buenos Aires during the interregnum after Juan Peron's fall from power and before his restoration. During those two decades, the city experienced a rapid metamorphosis at the behest of its middle class citizens, who were eager to cast off the working-class imprint left by the Peronists. Laura Podalsky discusses the ways in which the proliferation of skyscrapers, the emergence of car culture, and the diffusion of an emerging revolution in the arts helped transform Buenos Aires, and, in so doing, redefine Argentine collective history. More than a cultural and material history of this city, this book also presents Buenos Aires as a crucible for urban life. Examining its structures through films, literatures, new magazines, advertising and architecture, Specular City reveals the prominent place of Buenos Aires in the massive changes that Latin America underwent for a new, modern definition of itself."--Book cover. |
Contenido
The Spectacular City | 28 |
HighRise Apartments Arcades Cars Hoteles | 118 |
The Culture Industry and | 148 |
Censorship and the Dangers | 184 |
Notes | 239 |
Selected Filmography | 269 |
281 | |
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Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires ... Laura Podalsky Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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