mondo cinema and beyond 1960s — 1980s


neither/nor mondo mania


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MONDO CANE infiltrated the public consciousness to a degree that few documentaries have before or since—in Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1963 comedy La visita, François Périer cites its sea turtle scene while airily mansplaining environmental catastrophe. Tis success created a cottage industry of imitators. Most came from Italy, where the existence of a centralized and well-funded film industry allowed trends to spread like brushfire. In the immediate aftermath of Mondo Cane came, in 1963, Giuseppe


Maria Scotese’s Le città proibite, Romolo Marcellini’s I tabù (Taboos of the World), and Francesco de Feo’s Mondo Nudo (Naked World), and in 1964, Gianni Proia’s Ecco and Roberto Montero’s Sexy nel mondo (aka Mondo Infame). Te U.S. got into the act with Hollywood’s World of Flesh (1963) by Lee Frost, a known associate of trash producer Bob Cresse; together they would produce their own edit of Ecco, shoot sex inserts to spice up London in the Raw, and complete their own Mondo Bizarro


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