The Films of Arturo Ripstein

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.

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.