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The Films of Arturo Ripstein
The Sinister Gaze of the World
Edited by Manuel Gutiérrez Silva and Luis Duno Gottberg
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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 thefield.
About the authors:
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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