The cinema of Lucrecia Martel

<p><i>The cinema of Lucrecia Martel</i> provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since her 2001 debut <i>La ciénaga. </i><br><br>This volume considers existing critical work on Martel's oeuvre and proposes new ways of understanding it in particular through desire the use of the child's perspective and through the senses and perception. Martin also offers an analysis of the politics of Martel's films showing how they can be understood as sites of transformation and possibility develops queer approaches to Martel's films and shows how they offer new forms of cinematic pleasure. <i>The cinema of Lucrecia Martel</i> combines traditional plot and gaze analysis with an understanding of film as a material object to explore the films' sensory experiments and their challenges to dominant cinematic forms.</p>