Introduction
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