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Table of Contents Acknowledgments v Introduction: Why Mexploitation? 1 1. Mexploitation: Horror, Mexican Style 00 Mexican Horror Cinema in Social Context 00 The Birth of Mexploitation 00 2. Mexploitation: A Critical Inquiry 00 Camp, Cheese, and Counter-Cinema 00 Mexploitation as Counter-Cinema 00 Mexicanidad and Modernity: Visions of Mexico in Mexploitation 00 The Chica Moderna and the Countermacho: Sex, Gender and Patriarchy in Mexploitation 00 3. El barùn del terror (The Brainiac, 1961) 000 4. El Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata 000 Santo and the Lucha Libre Film: A Brief History 000 Lucha Libre and the Semiotics of Wrestling 000 Santo as "National Allegory" 000 Santo contra las mujeres vampiro (Santo vs. the Vampire Women, 1962) 000 Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs. la invasiùn de los marcianos (Santo, the Silver Masked-Man vs. the Invasion of the Martians, 1966) 000 Santo y Blue Demon contra Drçcula y el Hombre Lobo (Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolf Man, 1972) 000 5. Las Luchadoras 000 From Chica Modernas to Wrestling Women 000 Las luchadoras vs. el mÄdico asesino (Doctor of Doom, 1962) 000 Las luchadoras contra la momia (Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy, 1964) 000 6. El horripilante bestia humana (Night of the Bloody Apes, 1968) 000 Conclusion: The End of Mexploitation 000 Selected Filmography 000 Chapter Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Exploitation films -- Mexico -- History and criticism.
Sensationalism in motion pictures.