This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and
urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary
Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk to the Hilton
International Hotel, the shopping center to the café and the Le
Corbusier-designed Curutchet House to the gated community, architecture
in these films evokes the political. Tracing architecture's expression
through six films produced since the 1990s--Pizza birra faso, Mundo
grúa, Nueve reinas, La niña santa, La antena and El hombre de al
lado--Amanda Holmes studies how architecture in cinema elicits
political memory, underscores marginalization and class discrepancies,
creates nostalgia for neighborhoods and re-evaluates existing
communities. Generously illustrated and carefully researched, the book
offers an in-depth reading of key contemporary Argentine films and a
fresh architectural approach to film analysis.