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