Latsploitation, exploitation cinemas, and Latin America / edited by Victoria Ruétalo and Dolores Tierney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruétalo, Victoria, 1971-

Tierney, Dolores.

Series:

Routledge advances in film studies ; 4.

Routledge advances in film studies ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exploitation films--Latin America--History and criticism.

Exploitation films.

Sensationalism in motion pictures.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xiii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

Reinventing the frame: exploitation and Latin America / Victoria Ruétalo and Dolores Tierney

Before exploitation: three men of the cinema in Mexico / Ana M. López

Latsploitation beyond borders. "Perversa América Latina": the reception of Latin American exploitation cinemas in Spanish subcultures / Antonio Lázaro Reboll

Roger Corman dis/covers Peru: national cinema and Luis Llosa's Hour of the assassin/Misión en los Andes / Jeffrey Middents

"I wonder who the real cannibals are": Latin America and colonialism in European exploitation cinema / Andrew Syder

Latsploitation auteurs. Emilio Vieyra: Argentina's transnational master of horror / Gerard Dapena

Arty exploitation, cool cult, and the cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky / Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen

José Mojica Marins and the cultural politics of marginality in 'third world' film criticism / Dolores Tierney

More than simply cowboys, naked virgins, werewolves, and vampires? The transatlantic cinema of León Klimovsky / Andrew Willis

Politicizing latsploitation. Made in South America: locating Snuff / Glenn Ward

Based on a true story: reality-based exploitation cinema in Mexico / David Wilt

Con amor, tequila, y gasolina: Lola, the truck driver and screen resistance in cine fronterizo / Catherine L. Benamou

The naco in Mexican film: La banda del carro rojo, border cinema, and migrant audiences / Adán Avalos

Sex, sex, and more sex. Temptations: Isabel Sarli exposed / Victoria Ruétalo

Sharksploitation: René Cardona Jr.'s submarine gaze / Misha MacLaird

Sex and the generals: reading Brazilian pornochanchada as sexploitation / Stephanie Dennison

"Tus pinches leyes yo me las paso por los huevos": Isela Vega and Mexican dirty movies / Sergio de la Mora

Epilogue. At the margin of the margins: contemporary Ecuadorian exploitation cinema and the local pirate market / Gabriela Alemán.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-293) and index.

Includes filmography: pages [295]-313.

ISBN:

9780415993869

0415993865

OCLC:

237880553