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- Title
Parting Words: In Praise of Santo.
- Authors
Williams, Tony
- Abstract
The article focuses on Santo series of films built upon the presence of a reallife wrestler who played a masked superhero. It mentions that the Santo films offer a non-condescending and appealing treatment of a local superhero. It also cites reference to Doyle Green's book "Mexploitation Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977."
- Subjects
SUPERHERO films; WRESTLERS; MEXPLOITATION Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, ApeMan &; Similar Films (Book); MEXICAN films; VAMPIRE films
- Publication
Film International (16516826), 2018, Vol 16, Issue 3, p125
- ISSN
1651-6826
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/fiin.16.3.125_7