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.
