The Films of Arturo Ripstein

This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the twenty-nine films made by this highly acclaimed yet under-studied filmmaker. The eleven essays included come from scholars whose work stands at the intersection of the fields of Latin American and Mexican Film Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, History and Literary studies. Ripstein's films, often scripted by his long-time collaborator, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, represent an unprecedented achievement in Mexican and Latin American film. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ripstein has successfully maintained a prolific output unmatched by any director in the region. Though several book-length studies have been published in Spanish, French, German, and Greek, to date no analogue exists in English. This volume provides a much-needed contribution to thefield.

Includes three extensive and incisive interviews conducted by the volume's co-editors with Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garcíadiego Serves as the first scholarly volume published in English dealing entirely with the work of Arturo Ripstein Offers an original entry point into the history of Mexican Cinema by transcending the usual periodization by exploring a trajectory that responds to unique themes and aesthetical models while keeping these periods as context Converses with the most recent interests in the field of Mexican Cinema Studies and Cultural Studies: gender and violence, post-national culture, and more

Auteur

Manuel Gutiérrez Silva is currently Visiting Scholar at Rice University, USA, in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. His articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and A Contracorriente. His current book project Let Us Ignore Our Poet: Art Writing in Post-Revolutionary Mexico is forthcoming.

Luis Duno-Gottberg is Professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Rice University, USA. He is author of La humanidad como mercancía. Introducción a la esclavitud en América y el Caribe (2014) and Solventar las diferencias: La ideología del mestizaje en Cuba (2003) and is editor of several books on Latin American film, culture, and politics.

Contenu

1. Introduction; Manuel Gutiérrez Silva.- Part I. Slicing the Nationalist Gaze: Arturo Ripstein in the History of Mexican Cinema.- 2. Fifty Years in Film 1: Ripstein's early years and his place in Mexican cinema; Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva.- 3. Anachronism and Dislocation: Tiempo de morir (1965) Between the Nuevo Cine Mexicano and the Global Western; Rielle Navitski.- 4. El castillo de la pureza (1972): A National Allegory about the Perils of Closed Markets; Christina L. Sisk.- 5. Marranismo, Allegory, and the Unsayable in Arturo Ripstein's El Santo Oficio (1974); Erin Graff Zivin.- 6. Becoming Arturo Ripstein? On Collaboration and the Author Function in The Transnational Film Adaptation of El lugar sin límites (1978); Catherine Grant.- Part II. The Sinister Gaze: Pathos, Abjection, and Blood.- 7. Fifty Years in Film 2. Accomplices: Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego, An Interview; Luis Duno Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva.- 8. Deconstructing the Divas: Music in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites (1978) and La reina de la noche (1994); Catherine Leen.- 9. Mexican Abjection: Lucha Reyes and the Politics of Suffering in La reina de la noche (1994); Sergio de la Mora.- 10. Profundo carmesí (1996): Blood Weddings in Contemporary Mexico; Javier Guerrero.- Part III. Undoing the Melodramatic Gaze.- 11. Fifty Years in Film 3: The Melodrama and Filmmaking in the Twenty-First Century, An Interview; Luis Duno Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva.- 12. Arturo Ripstein: The Film Auteur in the Age of Neoliberal Production; Ignacio Sánchez Prado.- 13. La perdición de los hombres (200): Beyond Melodrama and its Variations; Niamh Thornton.- 14. Mothers, Maidens and Machos: Demolishing the Myths of Mexican Melodrama in Principio y fin (1996); Caryn Connelly.- 15. From La Manuela to La Princesa de Jade: Visual Spectacle and the Repetition Compulsion; Claudia Schaefer.