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 the field.

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
IntroductionPart I. Slicing the Nationalist Gaze: Arturo Ripstein in the History of Mexican Cinema1. Fifty Years in Film 1: Ripstein's early years and his place in Mexican cinema; Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva2. Arturo Ripstein: The Film Auteu*r in the Age of Neoliberal Production; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado3. Anachronism and Dislocation: *Tiempo de morir (1965) Between the Nuevo Cine Mexicano and the Global Western; Rielle Navitski4. The Castle of National Purity: Closed Markets and Closed Homes; Christina L. Sisk5. Deconstrucing the Divas: Music in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and La reina de la noche; Catherine Leen6. Profundo carmesí: Blood Weddings in Contemporary Mexico; Javier GuerreroPart II. The Sinister Gaze: Melodrama, Pathos, and Abjection7. Fifty Years of Film 2: Ripstein's collaboration with Paz Alicia Garciadiego; Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva8. Lucha Reyes and the Aesthetics of Mexican Abjection; Sergio de La Mora9. La perdición de los hombres (2000): Beyond Melodrama and its Variations; Niamh Thornton10. Mothers, Maidens, and Machos: the Demolition of the Myths of Mexican Melodrama in Principio y fin (1993); Caryn ConnellyPart III. Thinking Through Ripstein's Gaze11. Fifty Years of Film 3: Melodrama in Ripstein and Garciadiego's films; Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva12. Becoming Arturo Ripstein? On Collaboration and the Author Function in the Transnational Film Adaptation of El lugar sin límites; Catherine Grant13. From La Manuela to La Princesa de Jade: Allegorical Figures of Transparency and Opacity; Claudia Schaefer14. Marranismo, Allegory, and the Unsayable in Arturo Ripstein's El Santo Oficio; Erin Graff Zivin