Abstract
Pizza birra faso draws out the significance of built environments to then question, subvert and even ridicule them. Indeed, rather than underline the power exuded by downtown sites, this chapter argues that the film sarcastically challenges their authority by cinematographically framing authoritative architecture in contact with marginalized protagonists. The young protagonists’ circulation through Buenos Aires highlights the underside of the city that is lived by the unemployed , the homeless and the delinquent.
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Holmes, A. (2017). Pizza birra faso: Buildings of Hierarchy and Exclusion. In: Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55191-3_2
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