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Mexploitation

Mexploitation (sometimes called Cabrito Western[1] or Mexican video-home)[2] is a film genre of low-budget films that combine elements of an exploitation film and Mexican culture or portrayals of Mexican life within Mexico often dealing with crime, drug trafficking, money and sex.

El Mariachi (1992) is a noted Mexplotiation film

Mexican narco-cinema

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The Mexican narco-cine (Spanish for narco-cinema)[3] or narco-películas (Spanish for narco-films/narco-movies),[4] are a subgenre of the Mexploitation style films,[5] focused solely on the violence and luxurious lives of drug lords and cartels.[6] The title and the storyline of these films are usually inspired by popular narco corridos (drug ballads, drug songs),[7] and are marketed as low budget[8] tie-in merchandising to the narcocorrido songs.[9] Sometimes these films feature famous narco-corrido singers on them,[10] and are rumored to be financed by drug lords themselves. However, only a few such cases have been proven.[11]

Common qualities

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Mexploitation movies made in the 1960s and 1970s in Mexico were closer to their American exploitation film counterparts, with low-budget science-fiction films that often starred Mexican luchadores such as El Santo and Huracan Ramirez.

In the early 1980s and 1990s there was a notable change with films increasingly dealing with real-life issues such as drug cartels and the murders of their rivals. Notable actors in these films include Mario Almada,[12]: 15  Hugo Stiglitz,[13]: 123  Sergio Goyri, Valentin Trujillo, Jorge Reynoso,[12]: 15  Rodolfo de Anda,[13]: 79  Fernando Almada,[14] Rosa Gloria Chagoyán[14] and David Reynoso.[15]

The director Robert Rodriguez has been considered a pioneer of Mexploitation in the United States. His first film, El Mariachi, contains many Mexploitation elements and his 2007 film, Planet Terror, contained a fake trailer which developed into a feature film called Machete (2010), which contains many familiar elements of the genre.[16]

K. Gordon Murray

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Exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray acquired a unique collection of horror films in Mexico which began to appear on American late-night television and drive-in screens in the 1960s.[17][18] Ranging from monster movies clearly owing to the heyday of Universal Studios, to the lucha libre horror films featuring El Santo[19] and the "Wrestling Women"[20] alongside the 1959 Christmas classic "Santa Claus",[21] these low-budget films are still notably campy and inspired a small cult following.[20]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Pistoleros famosos revela la identidad regional". Milenio. 12 November 2013.
    - "El Cabrito-Western". Archived from the original on 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
    - "El cine cabrito". CONTRALINEA.COM.MX - Periodismo de investigación. April 2011.
  2. ^ "Sangre, apuros y chingadazos: ¡viva el videohome mexicano!". VICE. 10 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Mexican Narco Cinema - VICE - México". VICE. 29 March 2010.
  4. ^ "El Universal - Espectáculos - Millones de latinos compran narcopelículas". El Universal. 11 August 2015.
  5. ^ Rashotte, Ryan (23 April 2015). Narco Cinema. Springer. ISBN 9781137489241.
    - "Cinefagia y Cinegarage te invitan al taller "Bizarre cinema. El lado oscuro del cine", en Cine Tonalá. INSCRIPCIONES ABIERTAS". revistacinefagia.com.
  6. ^ "BBC Mundo - Noticias - México: la violencia del narco, al cine".
  7. ^ Micaela Arroyo (22 April 2014). "Tijuana, la meca del 'narcocine'". Milenio.
    -"CorridosAlterados.Net".
    -"Narco Peliculas".
  8. ^ "Actué en una película de 'narcotraficantes'". diez4.com. 18 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Fabián López - IMDbPro".
    -"El Universal - - Pozolero y Muletas, estrellas de narcofilm". 18 June 2013.
  10. ^ Alex Tieleman (25 September 2011). "Alfredo Ríos, "El Komander", la voz de los narcocorridos mexicanos".
  11. ^ "El Universal - Espectáculos - 'Narcos fueron actores'". El Universal. 3 September 2015.
    - "'La Barbie' habla de otros capos y de la película inspirada en él".
  12. ^ a b Rashotte, Ryan (2015-04-23). Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico's B-Filmography. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-48924-1.
  13. ^ a b Conway, Christopher (2019-12-15). Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-6111-0.
  14. ^ a b Rohrer, Seraina (2017-12-20). La India María: Mexploitation and the Films of María Elena Velasco. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4773-1347-3.
  15. ^ Mora, Carl J. (2015-05-07). Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004, 3d ed (in Arabic). McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9187-2.
  16. ^ Aldama, Frederick Luis (2015-03-15). Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez. University of Texas Press. pp. 157–163. ISBN 978-0-292-76357-9.
  17. ^ Senn, Bryan (2019-02-28). "Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!": Horror and Science Fiction Double Features, 1955-1974. McFarland. p. 309. ISBN 978-1-4766-3571-2.
  18. ^ Schneider, Steven Jay; Williams, Tony (2005). Horror International. Wayne State University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8143-3101-9.
  19. ^ Greene, Doyle (2015-01-28). Mexploitation Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977. McFarland. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-4766-0072-7.
  20. ^ a b Cotter, Robert Michael “Bobb” (2015-06-14). The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography. McFarland. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-4766-0419-0.
  21. ^ Craig, Rob (2019-02-15). American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3522-4.
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