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Drawing on the cinematic oeuvre of Ripstein and Garciadiego to reconceptualize the idea of the sordidThe sordid is not an ideology, an affect, or even a form of taste or sensibility. It is, Agustín Zarzosa argues, an image and an evocation of the process of degradation. The Sordid Image: The Naturalist Cinema of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego offers the first sustained study of this pivotal filmmaker-screenwriter pair, drawing on their multidecade collaborations to reframe an enduring problem of film theory: how to represent marginalized people.
Together, Ripstein and Garciadiego have constructed a recognizable cinematic world filled with social outcasts, characterized by self-degradation and unreason, and set within squalid environments. Inscribing the Ripsteinian universe within the literary and cinematic traditions of naturalism, this book theorizes the notion of the sordid to examine the partners' unique and epoch-defining films. We can, Zarzosa contends, understand the sordid as a cinematic image, with its specific components and pleasures, recasting questions of authorship, mise-en-scène, spectatorship, genre, and language.
Contents
Introduction: Between Pudeur and Disdain
Chapter One: The Beauty of the Sordid
Chapter Two: El imperio de la fortuna and the Shards of Mexicanidad
Chapter Three: Melodramatic Speculation in Principio y fin
Chapter Four: Profundo carmesí, or a Plunge Between Red and Pink
Chapter Five: Homo sordidus in El diablo entre las piernas
Conclusion: The Sordid and the Offensive
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
