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- Together with Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi is responsible for the five documentaries that gave birth to the much-maligned subgenre known as "mondo film": Mondo Cane, Mondo Cane 2, La Donna nel Mondo, Africa Addio, and Addio Zio Tom (aka Uncle Tom).
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Mondo films are a subgenre of exploitive documentary films. Many mondo films are made in a way to resemble a pseudo-documentary and usually depicting sensational topics, scenes, or situations.
In addition, the film's success led Jacopetti and Prosperi to produce several additional documentaries, including Mondo cane 2, Africa addio, and Addio zio Tom, while Cavara directed La donna nel mondo, Malamondo, as well as the anti-Mondo drama Wild Eye (Occhio selvaggio).
Jul 30, 2012 · Together with Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi is responsible for the five documentaries that gave birth to the much-maligned subgenre known as "mondo film": Mondo Cane,...
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Nobody else comes close. R. Budd Dwyer, whose worst crime was being the inspiration for that “Hey Man Nice Shot” song from the 90’s. The 90’s saw the near extinction of the true mondo movie, with more ‘serious’ documentary styles being used to document the bizarre and absurd.
Aug 21, 2011 · What all contemporary linguists agree on is that it derives from the 1962 “documentary” Mondo Cane. So it’s worth recognizing the film’s writer and supervising director, Gualtiero Jacopetti,...
Mar 5, 2018 · Contributions are invited for a special edition of Film International devoted to the “mondo” shock documentary film. The mondo genre was created in the 1960s by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi and Paolo Cavara with their first feature Mondo Cane (Italy, 1962).
May 9, 2024 · The darkest corner of exploitation cinema: the wild and wacky world of Mondo films. Cinema has always been a medium that’s thrived on pushing boundaries, breaking barriers, and wrestling with taboos, which has, in turn, opened the door for horror to become increasingly gnarly.
