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The flâneur, a figure mainly related to artistic disciplines such as literature, painting and photography, has been scarcely approached in cinema. Although it is possible to find some films where this figure has been slightly insinuated, up to now we had not been able to find a cinematographic work that we can take as an obvious reference. We think José Luis Guerin’s En la ciudad de Sylvia manages to fill that referential gap. Therefore our analysis and reflections try to shed light on the relations between the main character of the film and the flâneur.

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This paper approaches the problematic of homosexual identities construction build around discursive practices as associated materials with the social breakthrough and simbolic of an homoerotic culture in Santiago from the 1930's. Through of studying the sensationalist press and the corpus of psychoanalysis -fundamental practices of the mass culture- and also the narratives of privacy that articulate a biographic memoir deployed by two principal character of intellectual field: Hernán Díaz Arrieta and Luis Oyarzún, we analyze the main textual and subjective strategies unfold by citizens that carry an "other desire" in the seek of an internal dialog based on the appropriation inappropriate of sexually normalized urban spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]