1st Edition
Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America
Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema due to its perceived ‘low’ cultural status. It argues that Latin American exploitation cinema makes an important aesthetic and social contribution to the larger body of Latin American cinema – often competing with Hollywood and more mainstream national cinemas in terms of popularity.
Introduction: Made "In" Latin America
Victoria Ruétalo and Dolores Tierney
1. Outside the Industry: The Case of Juan Orol
Ana López
I Exploitation Beyond Borders
2. The Reception of Latin American Exploitation Cinema in Spanish Subcultures
Antonio Lázaro Reboll
3. Luis Llosa, Corman-Produced Films and Peruvian National Cinema
Jeffrey Middents
4. "I wonder who the Read Cannibals are?" Latin America and colonialism in European exploitation cinema
Andrew Syder
II. Exploitation Auteurs
5. Emilio Vieyra: Argentina’s Transnational Master of Horrors
Gerard Dapena
6. Arty Exploitation. Cool, Cult and the Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernandez Labayen
7. José Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe) and the Cultural Politics of Marginality in Third World Film Criticism
Dolores Tierney
8. More than Cowboys, Naked Virgins, Werewolves and Vampires? Leon Klimovsky Transatlantic Exploitation Cinema
Andy Willis
IIII. The Social Side of Exploitation
9. Snuff: Dirty Rumors, Dirty War
Jon Beasley-Murray
10. ‘Based on a True Story’: Mexican Exploitation Movies and Real Life
David Wilt
IV. Border Exploitation
11. ‘Lola, the Truck Driver and Screen Resistance in Cine Fronterizo (Border Cinema)
Catherine Benamou
12. The Naco in Mexican Film: Border Cinema and Migrant Audiences
Adán Avalos
V. Sex, Sex and More Sex
13. Temptations: Isabel Sarli Exposed
Victoria Ruetalo
14. Bikinis, Sharks, and Other Swimming Menaces: René Cardona Jr.’s Seafaring Gaze
Misha MacLaird
15. Sex and the Generals: Reading Brazilian Pornochanchada as Sexploitation
Stephanie Dennison
16. ‘La ley me las pasó por mis huevos’: Isela Vega and Mexican Dirty Movies
Sergio de la Mora
Epilogue: Circulation of Exploitation in Ecuador
Gabriela Aleman
Biography
Victoria Ruétalo is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. Dolores Mary Tierney is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex.
"Joining recent scholarly work on exploitation film in general, this study is the first to critique Latin American film in such detail. It will be useful to students interested in film studies and also, perhaps, in cultural and Hispanic studies. Summing Up: Recommended." --Choice
