His article, entitled “Between the Global and the National: Reading Place and Non-Place in El hombre de al lado/The Man Next Door (Cohn and Duprat 2009)”, reads the conflict between next-door neighbors Leonardo and Víctor in the film as a clash between larger forces at play, namely, national and global discourses in dispute for the spaces of the city. As part of his argument, Professor Malagón discusses the centrality of the Curutchet House, the only home built by renowned architect Le Corbusier in the Americas—and, in the film, featured as the home of one of the protagonists. He also delves into a discussion of the concepts of “place” and “non-place” as theorized by the late French anthropologist Marc Augé.
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