Mondo

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Mondo ( Italian for "world") or Mondo-Film describes a film genre whose films in the pseudo-documentary style allegedly show the true customs of people from all over the world and seemingly authentic depictions of sexuality and violence. In this way, the films should appear accusatory and rousing and express a criticism of civilization. The films were mainly produced in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s . The original type of the genre is the film Mondo Cane  (1962) by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara .

features

Mondo films are often riddled with violent and brutal scenes, mostly torture, rape, executions, slaughter or cruelty to animals. They mostly mix authentic with staged scenes and exploit prejudices about the life of foreign civilizations. The filmed locals perform according to local customs, i.e. preferably half-naked to completely naked. A good example of this is Jacopetti's controversial film Africa Addio  (1966), which shows atrocities committed by Africans against animals and people and contrasts images from South Africa during the apartheid period . Another example is his film Addio, Uncle Tom!  (1971), a pseudo-documentary on slavery in the southern states .

Other films in the genre are Mondo di notte - World without Shame  (1963) about the connection between brutality and sexuality , Le Citta proibite  (1962) about the amusement centers of the world in contrast to the slums, and Tentazione proibito  (1963), depictions of sexuality shows in night life. Later films in the genre tended to string together random, bloodthirsty individual episodes with the pure aim of shocking.

Later some films were made, often cannibal films , which had the designation "Mondo" in the title, but were not directly attributable to the Mondo genre. A well-known example of this is the Mondo Cannibale by Umberto Lenzi , published in 1972 . Although most Mondo films were made in Italy , there are also examples from other countries, such as Faces of Death  (1978) from the USA. Later films in the style of Mondo films are, for example, The Killing Of America  (1982) about crime in the USA or Mondomanila  (2010) about a teenager and his gang in a Manilian ghetto.

Due to their explicit depictions of violence, some Mondo films are banned in Germany by confiscation orders under Section 131 StGB, while they are often available in Switzerland and Austria.

See also

literature

  • Mikita Brottman: The horror film . Ed .: Stephen Prince. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2004, ISBN 0-8135-3363-5 , Mondo Horror. Carnivalizing the Taboo, p. 167-188 (English).
  • Mark Goodall: Sweet & Savage. The World Through the Shockumentary Film Lens . Headpress, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-900486-49-1 (English).
  • Mark Goodall: Remapping world cinema. Identity, culture and politics in film . Ed .: Stephanie Dennison. Wallflower, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-904764-62-5 , Shockumentary Evidence. The perverse politics of the Mondo film, p. 118-128 (English).
  • David Kerekes, David Slater: Killing for Culture: Death Film from Shockumentaries to Snuff . Turnaround, Manchester 2006, ISBN 1-900486-63-6 (English).
  • Danny Shipka: Perverse titillation. The exploitation cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980 . Mcfarland, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-4888-3 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c James zu Hüningen: Mondo-Film. In: Lexicon of film terms. Hans J. Wulff, Theo Bender, accessed October 25, 2013 .