The Mexican Cinema of Darkness: A Critical Study of Six Landmark Horror and Exploitation Films, 1969-1988

by Doyle Greene

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786429998
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	05/16/2007
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.43(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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