{"product_id":"the-sordid-image-agustzn-zarzosa-9798899480126","title":"The Sordid Image: The Naturalist Cinema of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on the cinematic oeuvre of Ripstein and Garciadiego to reconceptualize the idea of the sordid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003ci\u003e The Sordid Image: The Naturalist Cinema of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Agustín Zarzosa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899480126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Agustín Zarzosa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460252643583,"sku":"9798899480126","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9900cd04-c40f-4d41-a5dd-0d8e18b79edc.jpg?v=1777413539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sordid-image-agustzn-zarzosa-9798899480126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}