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The Films of Arturo Ripstein

The Sinister Gaze of the World

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    • Manuel Gutiérrez Silva
    Pages 1-21
  3. The Sinister Gaze: Pathos, Abjection, and Blood

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. Fifty Years of Film 2: Accomplices: Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego

      • Luis Duno Gottberg, Manuel Gutiérrez Silva
      Pages 133-144
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 329-341

About this book

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.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, Rice University, Houston, USA

    Manuel Gutiérrez Silva

  • Professor of Caribbean and Film Studies, Chair, Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, Rice University, Houston, USA

    Luis Duno Gottberg

About the editors

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.


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