Agustin Zarzosa is an associate professor of cinema studies at Purchase College. He is the author of Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects.

• Introduction: Between Pudeur and DisdainChapter 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 finChapter Four: Profundo carmesí, or a Plunge Between Red and Pink Chapter Five: Homo sordidus in El diablo entre las piernasConclusion: The Sordid and the Offensive Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

"Sophisticated and erudite, The Sordid Image is a significant contribution to film studies, filling an essential gap in the existing bibliography with its impressive originality." —Luis Duno-Gottberg, Rice University"Ripstein–Garciadiego's riveting spectacles of debasement compel Zarzosa to revisit one of cinema's abiding questions: how to represent subjects who inhabit the fringes of society. His ambitious, erudite, and engaged study offers a fresh take on cinematic naturalism." —Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara

Agustin Zarzosa is an associate professor of cinema studies at Purchase College. He is the author of Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects.

• Introduction: Between Pudeur and DisdainChapter 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 finChapter Four: Profundo carmesí, or a Plunge Between Red and Pink Chapter Five: Homo sordidus in El diablo entre las piernasConclusion: The Sordid and the Offensive Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

"Sophisticated and erudite, The Sordid Image is a significant contribution to film studies, filling an essential gap in the existing bibliography with its impressive originality." —Luis Duno-Gottberg, Rice University"Ripstein–Garciadiego's riveting spectacles of debasement compel Zarzosa to revisit one of cinema's abiding questions: how to represent subjects who inhabit the fringes of society. His ambitious, erudite, and engaged study offers a fresh take on cinematic naturalism." —Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara

Agustin Zarzosa is an associate professor of cinema studies at Purchase College. He is the author of Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects.

• Introduction: Between Pudeur and DisdainChapter 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 finChapter Four: Profundo carmesí, or a Plunge Between Red and Pink Chapter Five: Homo sordidus in El diablo entre las piernasConclusion: The Sordid and the Offensive Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

"Sophisticated and erudite, The Sordid Image is a significant contribution to film studies, filling an essential gap in the existing bibliography with its impressive originality." —Luis Duno-Gottberg, Rice University"Ripstein–Garciadiego's riveting spectacles of debasement compel Zarzosa to revisit one of cinema's abiding questions: how to represent subjects who inhabit the fringes of society. His ambitious, erudite, and engaged study offers a fresh take on cinematic naturalism." —Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara