Leen, Catherine
(2008)
City of Fear: Reimagining Buenos
Aires in Contemporary
Argentine Cinema.
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 27 (4).
pp. 465-482.
ISSN 0261-3050
Abstract
Argentine cinema has experienced a rebirth since the late 1990s, despite
the country’s economic crisis. Buenos Aires, long a key setting for the
nation’s fi
lms, has not escaped the negative impact of the crisis, yet fi
lm-
making in the capital has thrived. This article explores the radically
different presentation of the city since the fi
rst explosion of fi
lm in
Argentina after the end of the military dictatorship of 1976
–
1983. It
takes Luis Puenzo’s controversial
La historia ofi
cial
as a starting point
for a refl
ection on the current presentation of Buenos Aires as a city
plagued by fear in productions from the late 1990s to the early twenty-
fi
rst century.
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