Overview
Screenplays, photographs, and other papers relating to the career of Mexican film director and screenwriter, Arturo Ripstein, and that of his wife, Paz Alicia Garciadiego.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1935-2014
Creator
- Ripstein, Arturo (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Spanish
French
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite. Retrieval requires advance notice. Check with Houghton Public Services staff.
Extent
9 linear feet (12 boxes)Collection comprised chiefly of screenplays, synopses, and related documents for films written or directed by Ripstein and his wife, Paz Alicia Garciadiego; with administrative-related documents, photographs, correspondence, press clippings, lectures, books, and some of Ripstein's high-school papers.
Biographical / Historical
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born 1943) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Ripstein first worked as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel and in 1965 directed his first feature film, a western written by Gabriel García Márquez titled Tiempo de morir. Ripstein is married to and collaborates with Paz Alicia Garciadiego (born 1949) who is a screenwriter and scholar.
Arrangement
Minimally processed. Arranged in eight series: Administrative documents; Screenplays, synopses, and other material related to films; Lectures; Other papers; Books and programs; Press clippings and magazines; Oversize material; and Photographs.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository, b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2018M-57. Purchased with funds from the Bayard Livingston and Kate Gray Kilgour Fund and the Gore Vidal Endowment Fund for Arts and Letters, 2017 November 17.
Processing Information
Processed by Melanie Wisner, 2017 December. Additional processing was done by Rona Razon, 2019 September.
Creator
- Ripstein, Arturo (Person)
- Garciadiego, Paz Alicia, 1949- (Person)
- Title
- Ripstein, Arturo. Arturo Ripstein papers, circa 1936-2014 (MS Span 186): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2017 December 7
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02868
Repository Details
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