Doyle Greene

The Mexican Cinema of Darkness

A Critical Study of Six Landmark Horror and Exploitation Films, 1969-1988

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Produktbeschreibung

Following the national and international upheaval and tragedy in 1968, Mexican "trash cinema" began to shift away from the masked wrester genre and towards darker, more explicit films, and disturbing visions of the modern world: films which can be called "avant-exploitation." This work covers six of those films: El Topo, Mansion of Madness, Alucarda, Guyana, Crime of the Century, Birds of Prey, and Santa Sangre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780786429998
• ISBN-10: 0786429992
• Artikelnr.: 22582526

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments      
Preface     
Introduction     
1. The Counterculture Cinema of Cruelty: El Topo (The Mole, 1969)     
2. Madness and Modernity: La mansión de la locura (The Mansion of Madness,
1971)     
3. The New Dark Ages: Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas (Alucarda,
Daughter of Darkness, 1975)     
4. The Filming of the Disaster: Guyana, el crimen del siglo (Guyana, Crime
of the Century, 1979)     
5. Lines of Flight, or Death from Above: Ataque de los pájaros (Attack of
the Birds, 1986)     
6. National Oedipus: Santa sangre (Holy Blood, 1988)     
Conclusion     
Filmography     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index