Main entry:

Podalsky, Laura, 1964-

Title & Author:

Specular city : transforming culture, consumption, and space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973 / Laura Podalsky.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.

Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
Introduction: Urban Formations and Critical Scaffolding; Interruption: The Spectacular City -- 1. Residual Voices and Emergent Practices: Reformulating Buenos Aires after Peron; Interstices: The Politics of Bricolage in Villas Miserias and Berni's Collages -- 2. High-Rise Apartments, Arcades, Cars, Hoteles de Cita, and the Public-Private Divide; Interlude: The Di Tella and the Manzana Loca -- 3. Circulating Desires: The Culture Industry and the Promotion of New Urban Subjectivities; Interspersion: Architecture on the Up and Out -- 4. Consuming Sex in the City: Censorship and the Dangers of Promiscuous Texts; Intervention: La hora de los hornos in the Advertising Age.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1566399475 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781566399470 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1566399483 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781566399487 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Popular culture Argentina Buenos Aires.
City and town life Argentina Buenos Aires.
Arts and society Argentina Buenos Aires.
Culture populaire Argentine Buenos Aires.
Vie urbaine Argentine Buenos Aires.
Arts et société Argentine Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires (Argentine) au cinéma.
Buenos Aires (Argentine) dans la littérature.
15.85 history of America.
Arts and society.
City and town life.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Motion pictures.
Popular culture.
Kulturleben
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Sociale verandering.
Stadscultuur.
1950-1959.
1960-1969.
1970-1979.
Arts.
Culture populaire.
Histoire.
Thème cinématographique.
Thème littéraire.
Vie intellectuelle.
Vie urbaine.
Geschichte 1955-1973.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) Intellectual life 20th century.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) In motion pictures.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) In literature.
Buenos Aires (Argentine) Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Argentina Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (Argentine)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231923
Call No.: F3001.2 .P6 2004
Copy: pbk.
Status: Available