Massidda, A.L. orcid.org/0000-0001-8735-7990 (2018) Conflicting conceptions of domestic space: Shantytowns and state housing in contemporary Argentine cinema. Journal of Romance Studies, 18 (2). pp. 159-179. ISSN 1473-3536
Abstract
This article analyses the ways in which two contemporary Argentine films, Villa (Ezio Massa, 2013) and Diagnóstico esperanza (César González, 2013), portray domestic space. It argues that, in different ways, they both challenge the state notion of home as a cell of a larger, normalized, social system. Villa, which is set in the shanty town Villa 21, emphasizes the dynamism and liveliness of public spaces, and refers to residents’ solidarity. In contrast, Diagnóstico esperanza is set in the social housing complex Carlos Gardel and focuses on a verbally violent single-parent household. Even though both films denounce the marginalization of the urban poor, Villa ultimately celebrates the qualities of shanty town space, while Diagnóstico esperanza complicates the relationship between people and their lived environment, radically questioning the idea of what constitutes a functional society. Thus, both films are revealed to be antithetical to the very notion of ‘home’ that the state once intended to impose, albeit in different ways.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Institute of Modern Languages Research. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Romance Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This version is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) |
Keywords: | César González; determinism; Diagnóstico esperanza; space; shanty towns; social housing; Villa; Ezio Massa |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2022 13:18 |
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2022 13:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3828/jrs.2018.12 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193218 |
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