Abstract
Lucrecia Martel’s direct and latent privileging of children and adolescent protagonists in her feature-length films indeed most potently begins in Rey muerto. This chapter studies Rey muerto’s focus on the sensorial youth as a latent catalyst of the protagonist’s rebelliousness toward patriarchal structures of power. The analysis, moreover, underscores the ways in which this two-decade-old short film still continues to be robustly relevant to broader gender issues in the Argentine contemporary context.
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Selimović, I. (2018). Sensorial Youths: Gender, Eroticism and Agency in Lucrecia Martel’s Rey muerto. In: Maguire, G., Randall, R. (eds) New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89381-5_4
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