Download or read book The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography written by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any on-screen schmuck can take down a wolfman with a silver bullet. It takes a certain kind of hero to hoist that wolfman overhead into an airplane spin, follow with a body slam, drop an atomic elbow across his mangy neck, leg-lock him until he howls, and pin his furry back to the mat for a three-count. It takes a Mexican masked wrestler. Add a few half-naked vampire women, Aztec mummies, mad scientists, evil midgets from space, and a goateed Frankenstein monster, and you have just some of the elements of Mexican masked wrestler and monster movies, certainly among the most bizarre, surreal and imaginative films ever produced. This filmography features some of the oddest cinematic showdowns ever concocted--Mexican masked wrestlers battling monsters, evil geniuses and other ne'er-do-wells, be it in caves, cobwebbed castles or in the ring. From the 1950s to the 1970s, these movies were staples of Mexican cinema, combining action, horror, sex, science fiction and comedy into a bizarre amalgam aimed to please the whole family. Chapters examine the roots of the phenomenon, including the hugely popular masked wrestling scene and the classic Universal horror films from which Mexican filmmakers stole without compunction. Subsequent chapters focus on El Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras, the three most prominent masked wrestlers; wrestling women; other less prominent masked wrestlers; and the insane mish-mash of monsters pitted against the heroes. Each chapter includes background information and a full filmography, and a wide assortment of striking illustrations--posters, lobby cards and other graphic material, some better than the movies they advertised--accompany the text.

Download or read book El secreto del Gigante written by Angel Sorní montolío and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando Ángel, un niño de ocho años, y Pepito Descubrimiento, un duendecillo diminuto y juguetón, emprendieron la aventura, no se imaginaron ni por un momento la de cosas que les iban a ocurrir. Conocerán a Laura, la niña del País de las Adelfas; a Adao que viene del País de las Tinieblas; bajarán a las entrañas de Gulliver, el Gigante; visitarán el tenebroso País de las Cloacas y el radiante País de las Gaviotas; y lo más importante tendrán que descubrir

Download or read book El Verdadero Lenguaje Del Amor the True Language of Love written by Freddie Caballeros and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: â...as I turned the pages I found myself stripping the leaves off that writerâs soul one-by-one and, comprehending each stanza with all its pain and happiness, I realized what true pleasure was. That was when I appreciated whom he was paying tribute to: his muse...They are two hearts, two humans, two lives brought together by the same story, but torn apart by distance and misunderstanding; the ending leaves us questioning our own decisions. Mathematics, logic, magic, spells, romance, passion, madness⦠it is a glance into the past that leaves us simply breathless. [â¦] it is a fascinating experience that leads the reader step-by-step through loveâs inscrutable paths. There is a moment where the reader, without any other word, begins to grope along the language of first love. Freddie Caballeros gives us a spin into lifeâs roulette wheel where the protagonists undress a passionate, revealing, and captivating tale.âJazmin Santiago

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Download or read book Mummy Movies written by Bryan Senn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile that has yet to reach its end. Over the past century, movie mummies have met everyone from Abbott and Costello to Tom Cruise, not to mention a myriad of fellow monsters. Horrifying and mysterious, the mummy comes from a different time with uncommon knowledge and unique motivation, offering the lure of the exotic as well as the terrors of the dark. From obscure no-budgeters to Hollywood blockbusters, the mummy has featured in films from all over the globe, including Brazil, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, and even its fictional home country of Egypt--with each film bringing its own cultural sensibilities. Movie mummies have taken the form of teenagers, superheroes, dwarves, kung fu fighters, Satanists, cannibals and even mummies from outer space. Some can fly, some are sexy, some are scary and some are hilarious, and mummies quickly moved beyond horror cinema and into science fiction, comedy, romance, sexploitation and cartoons. From the Universal classics to the Aztec Mummy series, from Hammer's versions to Mexico's Guanajuato variations, this first-ever comprehensive guide to mummy movies offers in-depth production histories and critical analyses for every feature-length iteration of bandaged horror.

Download or read book Lord of Lykos written by Lourdes Urrea and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valton Wyatt is a wealthy, cool kid with not a care in the world other than obtaining decent grades to keep his father happy, until strange visions and dreadful nightmares reveal a family secret that menaces to destroy Valton s carefree existence. He will now fi nd himself in a terrifying race from the cobblestone streets of London to the steep, cold mountains of Spain, to find the truth, before it is too late.

Download or read book Hey Miss You Got a Book for Me written by Joanna F. Chambers and published by Austin, Tex. (P.O. Box 3864, Austin 78764) : Austin Bilingual Language Editions. This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography, now in its second edition, describes a model resource collection of over 350 book and audiovisual titles for a multicultural setting. While its emphasis is on Spanish language and cultural groups, a number of dual-language items have been included for speakers of Chinese, French, Greek, and Vietnamese. In addition to its thorough annotations, the listing provides information on the language level, interest level, binding, and copyright status of each title. Dewey classifications are suggested as an aid to librarians. Author, subject, and publisher/distributor indexes provide multiple access to the items, and complete ordering information is included. This updated model multicultural collection reflects site evaluation by children, teachers, librarians, and parents, and includes over 200 new titles available for the library or classroom. (Author/RAA)

Download or read book Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 11 tales — published between 1870 and 1900 — are by 4 outstanding authors who brought new life to Spanish literature: Juan Valera, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Leopoldo Alas ("Clarín"), and Emilia Pardo Bazán.

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Download or read book The Fate of Peruvian Democracy written by Tamara Feinstein and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path conflict’s effect on the legal Left in late-twentieth-century Peru, illustrating the catastrophic impact state and insurgent violence can have on the growth and resilience of democratic political actors during times of war. In this engaging historical study, Tamara Feinstein chronicles the late-twentieth-century Shining Path conflict and argues that it significantly contributed to the rupture and disintegration of the noninsurgent legal Left in Peru by deepening preexisting divisions and eradicating an entire generation of leaders. Using a combination of oral histories, archival documents, contemporary media accounts, and participant observation of commemorations, Feinstein maps the trajectory of the Peruvian Left’s rise and fall by analyzing two emblematic human rights cases that occurred at the Left’s zenith and nadir: the state-based violence of the 1986 Lima prison massacres and the 1992 Shining Path assassination of leftist shantytown leader María Elena Moyano. The lessons found in The Fate of Peruvian Democracy reach beyond Peru to connect with other Latin American countries. Peru’s story illustrates the difficulties of accumulating political force during times of violence, underscores how struggles for self-defense can complicate ideological stances on violence, and helps explain the unevenness of the resurgence of the Left (the so-called “pink tide”) in Latin America in the twenty-first century. The book contributes to debates on memory and human rights in Peru and Latin America where divisions over how to remember the war retraced the fault lines of earlier debates over democracy and violence.

Download or read book Science Fiction written by Phil Hardy and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1984 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mummy on Screen written by Basil Glynn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond.

Download or read book Cuentos de terror written by María Gema Salvador Sánchez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuentos de terror para amantes de lo misterioso y oculto. La realidad y la ficción se dan la mano y es imposible escapar a este universo de miedo.

Download or read book The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia written by Peter Dendle and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ragged, ill-spoken, rotting zombies (or the post-dead) seem socially awkward beside the more popular and aristocratic undead, like Count Dracula. The humble zombie remains, for the most part, unappreciated and unacknowledged--until now. The first exhaustive historical overview of zombie films, this book's lengthy entries evaluate more than 200 movies from 16 countries over a 65-year period from the early 1930s to the late 1990s. It covers everything from large studio films to backyard videography, and touches on memorable television episodes and miscellaneous shorts. An introduction traces the evolution of the genre and interprets the broader significance of the zombie in contemporary Western mythology.

Download or read book Booz o la Liberaci N de la Humanidad written by Adalberto GarcÍa De Mendoza and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Booz llegó a una colina que ascendía en el espacio. A medida que caminaba el horizonte iba descubriéndose y los valles y bosques, lagos y cascadas, ríos y desiertos, mares y peñascos, ciclos y astros; mostraron a su mirada la excelencia de la soledad del desierto, el murmullo del agua que se desborda en el abismo, la serenidad del lago, la vida frondosa del bosque, el río que como arteria alimenta a la tierra, la mar que guarda misterios y vida, los cielos que son espejismos y creación y los soles que iluminan al cosmos. Todo tenía vida, era refulgente en toda su plenitud; todo guardaba la primitividad de la bondad, el arrebato del amor y la sinceridad de la dádiva." Adalberto Garcia de Mendoza

Download or read book Horror Film Stars 3d ed written by Michael R. Pitts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carradine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Yvonne De Carlo, Faith Domergue, Boris Karloff, Otto Kruger, Bela Lugosi, Jack Palance, Vincent Price, Santo, and George Zucco are just a few of the 80 horror film stars that are covered in this major standard reference work, now in its third edition. The author has revised much of the information from the two previous editions and has added several more performers to the lineup of horror film stars. The performers are given well rounded career bios and detailed horror film write-ups, with complete filmographies provided for those most associated with horror, science fiction, and fantasy movies, and genre-oriented filmographies for the lesser stars.

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