Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America

by Ru‚talo, Victoria; Tierney, Dolores

• ISBN13: 9780203878927
• ISBN10: 0203878922
• Copyright: 2009-04-06
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema due to its perceived low cultural status. It argues that Latin American exploitation cinema makes an important aesthetic and social contribution to the larger body of Latin American cinema often competing with Hollywood and more mainstream national cinemas in terms of popularity.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Made "In" Latin America

Outside the Industry: The Case of Juan Orol

Exploitation Beyond Borders

The Reception of Latin American Exploitation Cinema in Spanish Subcultures

Luis Llosa, Corman-Produced Films and Peruvian National Cinema

"I wonder who the Read Cannibals are?" Latin America and colonialism in European exploitation cinema

Exploitation Auteurs

Emilio Vieyra: Argentina's Transnational Master of Horrors

Arty Exploitation. Cool, Cult and the Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky

José Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe) and the Cultural Politics of Marginality in Third World Film Criticism

More than Cowboys, Naked Virgins, Werewolves and Vampires? Leon Klimovsky Transatlantic Exploitation Cinema

The Social Side of Exploitation

Snuff: Dirty Rumors, Dirty War

'Based on a True Story': Mexican Exploitation Movies and Real Life

Border Exploitation

'Lola, the Truck Driver and Screen Resistance in Cine Fronterizo (Border Cinema)

The Naco in Mexican Film: Border Cinema and Migrant Audiences

Sex, Sex and More Sex

Temptations: Isabel Sarli Exposed

Bikinis, Sharks, and Other Swimming Menaces: René Cardona Jr.'s Seafaring Gaze

Sex and the Generals: Reading Brazilian Pornochanchada as Sexploitation

'La ley me las pasó por mis huevos': Isela Vega and Mexican Dirty Movies

Epilogue: Circulation of Exploitation in Ecuador

Gabriela Aleman

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