TY - CHAP
T1 - Non-places and separated worlds
T2 - Rodrigo Pla’s film La Zona
AU - Cristoffanini, Pablo Rolando
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The proliferation of non-places is an important feature of supermodernity (Marc Auge) or liquid modernity (Zygmunt Bauman). This article argues that gated communities can be studied as non-places compared to the old cities of Latin America with public and democratic spaces such as the street, the plaza and the church. The analysis is based on Auge’s concept of the non-place as an important spatial change in supermodernity. Theoretical inspiration is also found in Bauman’s notion of cities as microcosms in which we catch a glimpse of phenomena such as fear, insecurity, alienation, mixophobia, militarization and privatization. The article’s central thesis is that film is a major source of condensed knowledge about significant social and cultural issues in late modernity. I examine the portrayal of a gated community in Mexico City given by Rodrigo Pla’s film La Zona (2006). The analysis of the narrative, characters and selected rhetorical figures enables the identification and disclosure of the portrayed discourses and ideologies that serve to legitimize segregation and mixophobia. The film’s utopian aspects about ways of coping with segregation and mixophobia are also discussed
AB - The proliferation of non-places is an important feature of supermodernity (Marc Auge) or liquid modernity (Zygmunt Bauman). This article argues that gated communities can be studied as non-places compared to the old cities of Latin America with public and democratic spaces such as the street, the plaza and the church. The analysis is based on Auge’s concept of the non-place as an important spatial change in supermodernity. Theoretical inspiration is also found in Bauman’s notion of cities as microcosms in which we catch a glimpse of phenomena such as fear, insecurity, alienation, mixophobia, militarization and privatization. The article’s central thesis is that film is a major source of condensed knowledge about significant social and cultural issues in late modernity. I examine the portrayal of a gated community in Mexico City given by Rodrigo Pla’s film La Zona (2006). The analysis of the narrative, characters and selected rhetorical figures enables the identification and disclosure of the portrayed discourses and ideologies that serve to legitimize segregation and mixophobia. The film’s utopian aspects about ways of coping with segregation and mixophobia are also discussed
UR - http://aauforlag.dk/Shop/historie-kultur-litteratur-ebog/non-place-representing-placelessness-in-liter.aspx
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-87-7112-217-6
VL - 7
T3 - Interdisciplinære kulturstudier
SP - 145
EP - 170
BT - Non-place
A2 - Gebauer, Mirjam
A2 - Nielsen, Helle Thorsøe
A2 - Schlosser, Jan T.
A2 - Sørensen, Bent
PB - Aalborg Universitetsforlag
ER -