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The 1980s saw a resurgence of mondo movies focusing almost exclusively on (onscreen) death, instead of world cultures. The Faces of Death series is a notable example of this type of mondo (or "death") movie. The producers used fake footage (passed off as real), but some of the footage was legitimate (including scenes of autopsies, suicides and ...
Apr 5, 2019 · The strange but true story of the 1960s glory days of the shockumentary film. Mondo Cane, released in 1962, came to define an entire movie genre – the Mondo Movie, also referred to as ‘shockumentaries’, was a genre that specialised in documentary (or at least pseudo-documentary) studies of the word and wonderful, scattershot views of strange rituals, lifestyles and behaviours from around ...
Mondo Cane. Mondo Cane (a mild Italian profanity, [2] literally "Dog World") is a 1962 Italian mondo documentary film and directed by the trio of Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and Franco E. Prosperi, with narration by Stefano Sibaldi. The film consists of a series of travelogue scenes that provide glimpses into cultural practices around ...
- Antonio Climati, Benito Frattari
- Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara
- Stefano Sibaldi
- Gualtiero Jacopetti, Angelo Rizzoli
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The term mondo refers to a documentary-style feature that attempts to show the audience something it has never seen before, usually by titillating or nauseating them. If there are unifying factors to the Mondo subgenre, it is that the viewer is presented with real life (or death) events and places that are intended to shock or arouse.
Nov 5, 2016 · Widely despised in their day and little remembered now, “mondo” films have a peculiar legacy. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, these so-called documentaries collected together ...
- Charlie Lyne
Dec 1, 2003 · Most everything in The Mondo Cane Collection is unconventional, from subject matter to editing and direction. When the first film, Mondo Cane — literally translated as “A Dog’s World ...
Nov 17, 2011 · Between 1962 and 1963, the documentary Mondo Cane became a tremendous box-office success, but when we think of the films of 1963, the year it played America, titles like The Birds, Dr. No, and ...
