Part I. Slicing the Nationalist Gaze: Arturo Ripstein in the History of Mexican Cinema
1. Fifty Years in Film 1: Ripstein’s early years and his place in Mexican cinema; Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva
2. Arturo Ripstein: The Film Auteur in the Age of Neoliberal Production; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
3. Anachronism and Dislocation: Tiempo de morir (1965) Between the Nuevo Cine Mexicano and the Global Western; Rielle Navitski
4. The Castle of National Purity: Closed Markets and Closed Homes; Christina L. Sisk
5. Deconstrucing the Divas: Music in Arturo Ripstein’s El lugar sin límites and La reina de la noche; Catherine Leen
6. Profundo carmesí: Blood Weddings in Contemporary Mexico; Javier Guerrero
Part II. The Sinister Gaze: Melodrama, Pathos, and Abjection
7. Fifty Years of Film 2: Ripstein’s collaboration with Paz Alicia Garciadiego; Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva
8. Lucha Reyes and the Aesthetics of Mexican Abjection; Sergio de La Mora
9. La perdición de los hombres (2000): Beyond Melodrama and its Variations; Niamh Thornton
10. Mothers, Maidens, and Machos: the Demolition of the Myths of Mexican Melodrama in Principio y fin (1993); Caryn Connelly
Part III. Thinking Through Ripstein’s Gaze
11. Fifty Years of Film 3: Melodrama in Ripstein and Garciadiego’s films; Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva
12. Becoming “Arturo Ripstein”? On Collaboration and the “Author Function” in the Transnational Film Adaptation of El lugar sin límites; Catherine Grant
13. From La Manuela to La Princesa de Jade: Allegorical Figures of Transparency and Opacity; Claudia Schaefer
14. Marranismo, Allegory, and the Unsayable in Arturo Ripstein’s El Santo Oficio; Erin Graff Zivin
Manuel GutiérrezSilva 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.