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Lacarrieu, Mónica Beatriz
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214 p.
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Abstract
In this thesis I show the significance of the reduction of movie theater attendance during the last thirty years in relation to national as well as global processes. This study is done under the context of cultural consumption by part of Argentine middle classes during the XXth century.
I focus this analysis on the examination of two simultaneous processes: 1) on one hand, a process of cultural modernization that has been taking place in diverse spheres of society subsequent to the implementation and diffusion of new technologies throughout culture. There has also been observable changes in the ways (films) movie theater attendance (film production) is being presented, such as the opening of multiplex cinemas in shopping malls located in the city of Buenos Aires; I will refer to the significance of cinema in Argentine society and its relation to other forms of cultural consumption in a context of middle-class consolidation and citizen formation.
2) On the other hand, there has been a marked increase in social inequality, fragmentation of middle classes and the expansion of poverty. I will explore, therefore, how democratic cultural consumption is being presented across the spectrum of the fine arts, as in the case of cinema attendance (Benjamín , Williams), which is now situated in urban settings as an upper-middle class consumption, typically taking place in shopping malls. I consider changes taking place in the ways cinema attendance is presented under the context of social and cultural transformation in Buenos Aires.
Historically, Argentine society has been a direct recipient of Western cultural trends – since very early in the continental (Latin American) context: this also meant strong citizen rights demands. In the 90s, political and economic hardship negatively affected the installation of basic latter-day capitalist values, obliterating all at once the interventionist role of the State as social regulator.
The second part of this thesis refers to the middle classes and the increasing importance of cultural consumptions at home. From the seventies on, private TV stations are one of the most important producers of cultural contents, its changing role made possible by neoliberal economical policies favored by governments. In that context I consider the impact of new technologies on the production of images and its relationship with the emergence of a new type of cultural viewer. This new type of cultural consumption shows itself as a parallel phenomenon with the transformation of Argentine society, regarding the polarization of society and the appareance of an impoverished middle class.
Finally, we referr to recurrent social and institutional crisis marking Argentina's recent history. In this context we take into account the appereance of communal cultural centers, organized independently from private, State and governmental policies and interests. These centers are promoted by qualified professional and non proffesional managers belonging to the middle classes, in many cases as a way for coping with unemployment. These centers show us a changing social meaning of culture.
I focus this analysis on the examination of two simultaneous processes: 1) on one hand, a process of cultural modernization that has been taking place in diverse spheres of society subsequent to the implementation and diffusion of new technologies throughout culture. There has also been observable changes in the ways (films) movie theater attendance (film production) is being presented, such as the opening of multiplex cinemas in shopping malls located in the city of Buenos Aires; I will refer to the significance of cinema in Argentine society and its relation to other forms of cultural consumption in a context of middle-class consolidation and citizen formation.
2) On the other hand, there has been a marked increase in social inequality, fragmentation of middle classes and the expansion of poverty. I will explore, therefore, how democratic cultural consumption is being presented across the spectrum of the fine arts, as in the case of cinema attendance (Benjamín , Williams), which is now situated in urban settings as an upper-middle class consumption, typically taking place in shopping malls. I consider changes taking place in the ways cinema attendance is presented under the context of social and cultural transformation in Buenos Aires.
Historically, Argentine society has been a direct recipient of Western cultural trends – since very early in the continental (Latin American) context: this also meant strong citizen rights demands. In the 90s, political and economic hardship negatively affected the installation of basic latter-day capitalist values, obliterating all at once the interventionist role of the State as social regulator.
The second part of this thesis refers to the middle classes and the increasing importance of cultural consumptions at home. From the seventies on, private TV stations are one of the most important producers of cultural contents, its changing role made possible by neoliberal economical policies favored by governments. In that context I consider the impact of new technologies on the production of images and its relationship with the emergence of a new type of cultural viewer. This new type of cultural consumption shows itself as a parallel phenomenon with the transformation of Argentine society, regarding the polarization of society and the appareance of an impoverished middle class.
Finally, we referr to recurrent social and institutional crisis marking Argentina's recent history. In this context we take into account the appereance of communal cultural centers, organized independently from private, State and governmental policies and interests. These centers are promoted by qualified professional and non proffesional managers belonging to the middle classes, in many cases as a way for coping with unemployment. These centers show us a changing social meaning of culture.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales