Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.The Projected Nation examines the representation of rural spaces and urban margins in Argentine cinema from the 1910s to the present. The literary and visual culture of the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries formulated a spatial imaginaryoften articulated as an opposition between civilization and barbarism or its inversioninto which the cinema intervened. As the twentieth century progressed the new medium integrated these ideas with its own images in various ways. At times cinema limited itself to reproducing inherited representations that reassure the viewer that all is well in the nation while at others it powerfully reformulated them by filming spaces and peoples previously excluded from the national culture and left behind in the nations modernizing process. Matt Losada accounts for historical events technological factors and the politics of film form and viewing in assessing a selection of works ranging from massmarketed cinema to the political avantgarde and from the canonical to the nearly unknown.