Contributions

  • Lourdes Grobet (Editor) - Contributor
  • Alfonso Morales Carrillo (Editor) - Contributor
  • Gustavo Fuentes (Editor) - Contributor
  • Jose Manuel Aurrecoechea (Editor) - Contributor
  • Carlos Monsivais (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

2005 - Trilce

Language

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads1564675
  • LibraryThing1156229

Classifications

  • LCCGV1198.16.A2 G76 2005

Description

Take one part Mexi-Monster cinema, one part Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, throw in a little Zoro, the WWF and the knit-costume-wearing performance art collective Forcefield, and you come up with the raw, vivid, and psychologically unhinged world of "Lucha Libre" the sports-entertainment phenomenon that first swept Mexico and now the world. Photographer Lourdes Grobet's penentrating study of Mexican professional wrestling culture features more than 500 photographs of "luchadores" like Blue Demon, Santo, The Witch, Adorable Rub', El Solitario and Hurricane Ramirez, as well as pictures of their families, friends and fans--onstage, backstage and even at home. "Lucha Libre" also includes photographs of stickers, flyers, postcards, stills from "Mexi-lucha-cinema," interviews with the wrestlers, essays and much, much more! In this comprehensive 20-year study, Grobet has put together "the" definitive look at Mexico's masked superstars.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Espectacular De Lucha Libre/wrestling SpectacularPaperbackTrilce2005

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