Mexploitation Cinema

Independent scholar Doyle Greene is the author of several books and serves on the editorial board of Film Criticism. He lives in Tucson Arizona.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: Why Mexploitation?      1. Mexploitation: Horror, Mexican Style      Mexican Horror Cinema in Social Context      The Birth of Mexploitation      2. Mexploitation: A Critical Inquiry      Camp, Cheese, and Counter-Cinema      Mexploitation as Counter-Cinema      Mexicanidad and Modernity: Visions of Mexico in Mexploitation      The Chica Moderna and the Countermacho: Sex, Gender and Patriarchy in Mexploitation      3. El barón del terror (The Brainiac, 1961)      4. El Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata      Santo and the Lucha Libre Film: A Brief History      Lucha Libre and the Semiotics of Wrestling      Santo as “National Allegory”      Santo contra las mujeres vampiro (Santo vs. the Vampire Women, 1962)      Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs. la invasión de los marcianos (Santo, the Silver Masked-Man vs. the Invasion of the Martians, 1966)      Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolf Man, 1972)      5. Las Luchadoras      From Chica Modernas to Wrestling Women      Las luchadoras vs. el médico asesino (Doctor of Doom, 1962)      Las luchadoras contra la momia (Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy, 1964)      6. El horripilante bestia humana (Night of the Bloody Apes, 1968)      Conclusion: The End of Mexploitation      Selected Filmography      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

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