Greene,
Doyle. Mexploitation
Cinema: A
Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar
Films, 1957-1977.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 192pp. ISBN 0786422017 (paper).
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info on-line
Acknowledgments
... vii
Introduction: Why
Mexploitation? ... 1
1.
Mexploitation: Horror, Mexican Style ... 5
Mexican Horror Cinema
in Social Context ...
5
The Birth
of Mexploitation ... 7
2. Mexploitation: A
Critical Inquiry ... 12
Camp, Cheese, and
Counter-Cinema ... 12
Mexploitation
as Counter-Cinema ... 14
Mexicanidad
and Modernity: Visions of Mexico in Mexploitation ... 19
The Chica
Moderna and the Countermacho:
Sex, Gender and Patriarchy in Mexploitation ... 27
3. El barón del
terror (The Brainiac, 1961) ... 34
4.
El Santo, el Enmascarado
de Plata ... 50
Santo and the Lucha
Libre Film: A Brief
History ... 50
Lucha
Libre and the Semiotics of Wrestling ... 54
Santo as
“National Allegory” ... 55
Santo
contra las mujeres vampiro (Santo vs. the Vampire Women,
1962) ... 57
Santo,
el Enmascarado de Plata vs. la invasión de los marcianos
(Santo, the Silver Masked-Man vs. the Invasion of the Martians,
1966) ... 68
Santo
y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (Santo and Blue
Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolf Man,
1972) ... 83
5. Las Luchadoras ... 103
From Chica
Modernas to Wrestling Women ...
103
Las
luchadoras vs. el médico asesino (Doctor of Doom,
1962) ... 107
Las
luchadoras contra la momia (Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy,
1964) ... 125
6. El
horripilante bestia humana (Night of the Bloody Apes,
1968) ... 144
Conclusion: The End of
Mexploitation ... 166
Selected Filmography
... 171
Chapter Notes
... 177
Bibliography
... 185
Index
... 187