Cinematic Polyphony in Lucrecia Martel’s Cinema: The Musicality of Narrative Film in ‘The Headless Woman’
This paper provides an overview of the concept of musicality in fiction cinema language, understanding the comparative analysis of both art forms and considering cinema as a potentially musical construction. Furthermore, the examination of polyphonic musical textures and its methodical application i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lusófona University
2018-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Film and Media Arts |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/article/view/6757 |
| Summary: | This paper provides an overview of the concept of musicality in fiction cinema language, understanding the comparative analysis of both art forms and considering cinema as a potentially musical construction. Furthermore, the examination of polyphonic musical textures and its methodical application in the formal analysis of Lucrecia Martel’s cinema (namely in her 2007 film The Headless Woman) provides a new perspective on the aesthetical values of the Argentinean filmmaker’s work with sound and image, which unveils other forms of assuming fiction film narration. |
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| ISSN: | 2183-9271 |