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The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel

This document provides information about the book "The cinema of Lucrecia Martel" by Deborah Martin. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of acclaimed Argentine film director Lucrecia Martel's films, examining how they engage with trends in Argentine cinema and international art and horror films. It argues Martel's films create uncertainty and doubt to allow glimpses of alternative realities, seen as sites of radical optimism and potential that challenge viewers' perceptions. The book brings together film analysis and understanding films as material objects to show how Martel's cinema experiments with perception.

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The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel

This document provides information about the book "The cinema of Lucrecia Martel" by Deborah Martin. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of acclaimed Argentine film director Lucrecia Martel's films, examining how they engage with trends in Argentine cinema and international art and horror films. It argues Martel's films create uncertainty and doubt to allow glimpses of alternative realities, seen as sites of radical optimism and potential that challenge viewers' perceptions. The book brings together film analysis and understanding films as material objects to show how Martel's cinema experiments with perception.

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The cinema of Lucrecia Martel

Deborah Martin

Published by Manchester University Press

Martin, D..
The cinema of Lucrecia Martel.
Manchester University Press, 2016.
Project MUSE., https://muse.jhu.edu/.

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The cinema of Lucrecia Martel is a comprehensive SPANISH AND

The cinema of Lucrecia Martel


analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine
director, whose elusive and elliptical features have LATIN AMERICAN
garnered worldwide recognition since her 2001 FILMMAKERS
debut La cinaga. Examining these films alongside Series editors:
lesser-known shorts, the book situates Martels Nria Triana Toribio
work in relation to trends in recent Argentine Andy Willis

The cinema of
filmmaking, as well as international art and
horror cinema.

Lucrecia Martel
Through discussions of the interventions made by
Martels films in matters of class, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, and Argentine history and politics, the
book makes a case for her cinema as deeply
political, showing how its creation of uncertainty
and doubt allows for glimpses of alternative
realities. In this reading, the films can be seen as
sites of radical optimism and potentiality, offering
new kinds of cinematic pleasure, and as parodic
and camp in their treatment of cinematic codes,
especially those relating to femininity. This is
linked to a broader queer sensibility, which
informs the films politics and aesthetics.

Martin
Bringing together traditional hermeneutic Deborah Martin is
approaches with an understanding of film as Senior Lecturer in Latin
American Cultural Studies
material object, this book shows how Martels
in the Department of
cinema can be understood as an experiment with Spanish, Portuguese and
perception, and how the films break away from Latin American Studies
the sedimented thinking of dominant cinematic at University College
forms, thereby challenging the viewers perceptual London
capacities. It will be of great interest to students
Cover image
and scholars of Latin American, womens and Maria Alch in La nia
queer cinemas. santa (The Holy Girl),

Deborah Martin
2004. Reproduced by kind
permission of Lucrecia Martel
and Lita Stantic Producciones

ISBN 978-0-7190-9034-9 SPANISH AND


LATIN AMERICAN
FILMMAKERS

www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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