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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laura Podalsky |
| ISBN: | 1566399483 9781566399487 1566399475 9781566399470 |
| OCLC Number: | 1015444650 |
| Description: | 287 pages |
| Contents: | List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Urban Formations and Critical ScaffoldingINTERRUPTION: The Spectacular City1. Residual Voices and Emergent Practices: Reformulating Buenos Aires after PeronINTERSTICES: The Politics of Bricolage in Villas Miserias and Berni's Collages2. High-Rise Apartments, Arcades, Cars, Hoteles de Cita, and the Public-Private DivideINTERLUDE: The Di Tella and the Manzana Loca3. Circulating Desires: The Culture Industry and the Promotion of New Urban SubjectivitiesINTERSPERSION: Architecture on the Up and Out4. Consuming Sex in the City: Censorship and the Dangers of Promiscuous TextsINTERVENTION: La hora de los hornos in the Advertising AgeEpilogueNotesSelected FilmographySelected BibliographyIndex |
| Responsibility: | Laura Podalsky. |
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"Podalsky's study is an original contribution to the social and cultural history of the city [Buenos Aires], centering on the years that separate the fall of the first Peronist government (1955) and the triumph of the second (1973)."-The Journal of Latin American Anthropology "I enjoyed this book immensely, not just because Podalsky leads the reader on an intriguing and well-structured journey through two turbulent decades of crisis and change. She weaves together literary narratives, films, music, ideology and architecture in a way that teases out crucial changes in the material landscape and highlights their ideological and practical significance.... Specular City achieves its goal of highlighting the cultural trends in Buenos Aires that provided a bridge between the 1960s and 1990s."-Urban Studies "This is a spectacular book about the imagination of matter and matters of the imagination in contemporary Buenos Aires. Laura Podalsky has presented us with a work of metamorphosis on two levels. First, on the methodological level, this book is a hope fulfilled. She has combined the best of cultural studies with astute applications of social geography and revealed for us the ways that high-rise apartments, sex in this city, movies and marketplaces animate this heart of Argentina. More than that, we learn the secrets, promises and lived urban practices in the minds and hands of an energetic Latin American middle class that revitalized the symbolic languages, built environments and consumptive practices in the years after Peron. Don't cry for Argentina! Read this book instead."-David Carrasco, Harvard Divinity School and Department of Anthropology "Podalsky's book is a worthy entry in the renewed interest in the Argentine decade of the 1960s... [She] examines in excellent detail her own selective inventory of major cultural productions that interact with the enormous social and physical changes going on in the city during the period in question.... What she [covers] is done admirably and intelligently and transmits well the enormous vibrancy of one of the continent's greatest cities."-The Americas Read more...
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- Popular culture -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires.
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- City and town life.
- Intellectual life.
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