The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Manuel Gutiérrez Silva)....Pages 1-21 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Fifty Years in Film I: Ripstein’s Early Years and His Place in Mexican Cinema (Luis Duno Gottberg, Manuel Gutiérrez Silva)....Pages 25-33 Anachronism and Dislocation: Tiempo de morir (1965) Between the Nuevo Cine Mexicano and the Global Western (Rielle Navitski)....Pages 35-64 El castillo de la pureza (1972): A Closed Market Represented by a Closed Home (Christina L. Sisk)....Pages 65-82 Marranismo, Allegory, and the Unsayable in Arturo Ripstein’s El Santo Oficio (Erin Graff Zivin)....Pages 83-106 Becoming “Arturo Ripstein”? On Collaboration and the “Author Function” in the Transnational Film Adaptation of El lugar sin límites (1978) (Catherine Grant)....Pages 107-129 Front Matter ....Pages 131-131 Fifty Years of Film 2: Accomplices: Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego (Luis Duno Gottberg, Manuel Gutiérrez Silva)....Pages 133-144 Deconstructing the Divas: Music in Arturo Ripstein’s El lugar sin límites and La reina de la noche (Catherine Leen)....Pages 145-167 Mexican Abjection: Lucha Reyes and the Politics of Suffering in La reina de la noche (1994) (Sergio de la Mora)....Pages 169-195 Profundo Carmesí: Blood Weddings in Contemporary Mexico (Javier Guerrero)....Pages 197-217 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 Fifty Years of Film 3: Melodrama in Ripstein’s Films and Garciadiego’s Screenplays (Luis Duno Gottberg, Manuel Gutiérrez Silva)....Pages 221-227 Arturo Ripstein: The Film Auteur in the Age of Neoliberal Production (Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado)....Pages 229-256 La perdición de los hombres (2000): Beyond Melodrama and Its Variations (Niamh Thornton)....Pages 257-275 Mothers, Maidens and Machos: Demolishing the Myths of Mexican Melodrama in Principio y fin (1993) (Caryn Connelly)....Pages 277-304 From La Manuela to La Princesa de Jade: Visual Spectacle and the Repetition Compulsion (Claudia Schaefer)....Pages 305-328 Back Matter ....Pages 329-341