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Specular City - The Transformation Of Culture, Consumption (Paperback, New)
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Specular City - The Transformation Of Culture, Consumption (Paperback, New)
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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. Author note: Laura Podalsky is
Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at
Ohio State University.
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