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São Paulo and Buenos Aires: Urban Cinematic Representation in Contemporary Latin America

Cruz, Samuel
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5763-2899
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1439933733

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
My project analyzes the filmic representation of São Paulo and Buenos Aires in contemporary Brazilian and Argentine fictional cinema (2002-2012) in the wake of major urban renovations that took place in those cities during that same period in the context of larger neoliberal reforms. It proposes a study of filmic representations of these metropolises during a period of significant political, economic, social, and cultural transformations following an era of dictatorship. In particular, this project explores the degree to which these films offer a contestatory vision of this transformation. The socio-economic charges ushered in by the neoliberal platform both in Brazil and Argentina have intensified many social and infra-structural changes: on the one hand, we see unparalleled growth of the number of favelas and villas miseria while on the other hand there exists the renovation and revitalization of affluent areas seen in the construction of an unequaled number of postmodernist-style buildings. At the same time, unprecedented violence surges in urban areas such as São Paulo and Buenos Aires as a consequence of these political-economic measures. The films analyzed here through transdissciplinary lens evidence social gaps based on class division.
Laura Podalsky, Dr. (Advisor)
Kris Paulsen, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pedro Pereira, Dr. (Committee Member)
260 p.
Film Studies; Latin American Literature

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  • Cruz, S. (2015). São Paulo and Buenos Aires: Urban Cinematic Representation in Contemporary Latin America [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1439933733

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cruz, Samuel. São Paulo and Buenos Aires: Urban Cinematic Representation in Contemporary Latin America. 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1439933733.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cruz, Samuel. "São Paulo and Buenos Aires: Urban Cinematic Representation in Contemporary Latin America." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1439933733

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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