Motherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogy

dc.contributor.authorClancy, Fiona
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-02T12:03:03Z
dc.date.available2018-05-02T12:03:03Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe films of Argentine director Lucrecia Martel are among a number of recent works directed by women which, in the words of one critic, ‘operate according to their own stubbornly private rules, logic, timing, sense of space’ (Jones 2005). Such a description would seem to befit the female characters that inhabit Martel’s on-screen world as much as the films themselves. Monolithic matriarchal figures, whose quirks, faults and failings reverberate through the generations, loom large in Martel’s work. Yet, her style of filmmaking immerses the viewer in a distinctly childlike and fluid experience of being in the world, by eschewing establishing shots and other such orientating devices, and privileging the non-visual and off-screen space. This paper will discuss motherhood in crisis in Martel’s first three feature-length films, The Swamp (La ciénaga, 2001), The Holy Girl (La niña santa, 2004) and The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza, 2008), known as the Salta trilogy for their common geographic setting and semi-autobiographical concerns. It will examine how Martel employs adolescent point-of-view to explore filial relationships, and it will question how her use of sound, in particular, contributes to the ambivalence of the maternal in her films.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationClancy, F. (2015) 'Motherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogy', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 10. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.10.04en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.10.04
dc.identifier.endpage75
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued10
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage64
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5981
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue10/HTML/ArticleClancy.html
dc.rights© 2015, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectFilmmakingen
dc.subjectMartelen
dc.subjectMaternalen
dc.subjectMotherhooden
dc.subjectMatriarchen
dc.subjectOff-screen spaceen
dc.subjectThe Swampen
dc.subjectLa ciénagaen
dc.subjectThe Holy Girlen
dc.subjectLa niña santaen
dc.subjectThe Headless Womanen
dc.subjectLa mujer sin cabezaen
dc.subjectAdolescent point-of-viewen
dc.subjectSounden
dc.subjectAmbivalenceen
dc.titleMotherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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