Specular city : transforming culture, consumption, and space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973 /
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| Author / Creator: | Podalsky, Laura, 1964- |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5276484 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.