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Author : Lourdes Grobet
Release : 2006
Genre : Mexico
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Book Rating : 340/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Espectacular de lucha libre by : Lourdes Grobet
Download or read book Espectacular de lucha libre written by Lourdes Grobet. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lourdes Grobet
Release : 2008
Genre : Mexico
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Book Synopsis Lucha libre by : Lourdes Grobet
Download or read book Lucha libre written by Lourdes Grobet. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rafael Tonatiuh
Release : 2009-07
Genre : Photography
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Book Synopsis Lucha Libre (Lucha Libre, Spanish Edition) by : Rafael Tonatiuh
Download or read book Lucha Libre (Lucha Libre, Spanish Edition) written by Rafael Tonatiuh. This book was released on 2009-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desde muy pequeña, Lourdes Grobet se interesó por el espectáculo de la lucha libre mexicana. Es la única mujer que ha trabajado sobre el tema - durante más de 25 años - y con sus lentes ha ido captando la magia de este apasionado deporte, del que se habla mucho y poco se conoce, pues se trata de un mundo aparte, especial, admirado pero incomprendido. Estos guerreros necesitan su disfraz, pues su aspecto no solo es un bello adorno característico del contexto propio de lucha libre, sino también un arma para desconcertar, deslumbrar, asustar y güamearse al contrincante. Guerreros alterados por el sublime placer de asumirse, estoicamente, anónimos, cuya vida pública podrá ser una leyenda conocida, pero cuya vida privada debe ser un secreto, pues su epopéyica fantasía se confronta al diseño ambiental normal cotidiano con su particular misterio. En este fascinante libro, la asidua de las arenas se adentra en la vida privada de esos ídolos, en sus hogares, en sus sitios de reunión y en los festejos de los históricos gladiadores del ring. Rafael Tonatiuh aporta su especial visión de este fenómeno social único en el mundo. Cada luchado rnos lleva al borde de su personal misterio. From a very young age, Lourdes Grobet was interested in the Mexican wrestling show. She is the only woman who has worked on the subject - for more than 25 years - and with her lenses she has been capturing the magic of this passionate sport, which is talked about a lot and little is known, since it is a world apart, specially admired but misunderstood. These warriors need their costume, because their appearance is not only a beautiful adornment characteristic of the wrestling context itself, but also a weapon to confuse, dazzle, scare and fool the opponent. Warriors altered by the sublime pleasure of assuming, anonymity in a stoic way. Their public life may be legendary, but their private life must be a secret, since their epic fantasy confronts the normal everyday environmental design with its particular mystery. In this fascinating book, the assiduous of the arenas delves into the private lives of these idols, in their homes, in their meeting places and in the celebrations of the historic gladiators of the ring. Rafael Tonatiuh brings his special vision of this unique social phenomenon in the world. Each fought takes us to the edge of its personal mystery.
Author : Heather Levi
Release : 2008-10-24
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 473/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The World of Lucha Libre by : Heather Levi
Download or read book The World of Lucha Libre written by Heather Levi. This book was released on 2008-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters, and reporters; she also apprenticed with a retired luchador (wrestler). Drawing on her insider’s perspective, she explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. Levi argues that the broad appeal of lucha libre lies in its capacity to stage contradictions at the heart of Mexican national identity: between the rural and the urban, tradition and modernity, ritual and parody, machismo and feminism, politics and spectacle. Levi considers lucha libre in light of scholarship about sport, modernization, and the formation of the Mexican nation-state, and in connection to professional wrestling in the United States. She examines the role of secrecy in wrestling, the relationship between wrestlers and the characters they embody, and the meanings of the masks worn by luchadors. She discusses male wrestlers who perform masculine roles, those who cross-dress and perform feminine roles, and female wrestlers who wrestle each other. Investigating the relationship between lucha libre and the mass media, she highlights the history of the sport’s engagement with television: it was televised briefly in the early 1950s, but not again until 1991. Finally, Levi traces the circulation of lucha libre symbols in avant-garde artistic movements and its appropriation in left-wing political discourse. The World of Lucha Libre shows how a sport imported from the United States in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican cultural authenticity.
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Release : 2005
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Lucha libre written by . This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
