Lucrecia Martel / by Gerd Gemünden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gemünden, Gerd, 1959- author.

Series:

Contemporary film directors.

Illinois scholarship online.

Contemporary film directors

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martel, Lucrecia, 1966---Criticism and interpretation.

Martel, Lucrecia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 190 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Summary:

This book provides an overview of the films of the Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, who counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers from Latin America and as a leading female global auteur. It situates Martel's cinema in the context of a post-dictatorship, neoliberal democracy, as well as within the emergence of a new wave realism (New Argentine Cinema), which profits from and is critical of the privileged role cinema assumes in this new economy. The book argues that Martel's films challenge the primacy of the visual by emphasizing modes of perception such as hearing, feeling, and smelling to question not only the veracity of what we see but, more fundamentally, the epistemological foundations on which the visual is built.

Contents:

A poetics of the senses : the films of Lucrecia Martel

Drowning in indolence : La ciénaga

Touching tales : La niña santa

Dazed and deceitful : La mujer sin cabeza

Leaving Salta : recent shorts and a lost film

The myopia of colonialism : Zama

Interviews with Lucrecia Martel.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 11, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

ISBN:

9780252051692

0252051696