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One of innumerable subgenres of grindhouse and [[Exploitation Film|exploitation]] cinema existing during the 60s, 70s and 80s hoping to rake in cash from adolescent boys out to see gore, sex and sensational subject matter; '''Mondo''' films, also called "Shockumentaries", were documentaries which chartered the darker side of societies and cultures around the world;... [[Groin Attack|ritual circumcision among African tribes...]] [[Tattooed Crook|back-alley tattoo parlors in inner-city America...]] [[Transsexualism|transsexual prostitutes in Bangkok]]... all the stuff they won't show on the Discovery Channel but which can be defended by crying, [[
[[Trope Maker|This subgenre begun]] with Paolo Cavara's, Gualtiero Jacopetti's, and Franco Prosperi's ''Mondo Cane'', [[Trope Namer|from which the subgenre takes it name]] and of which subsequent films utilized the word to identify themselves as of being in the subgenre. With the English translation of the film's title being ''A Dog's World'', the film was predominantly an exploration of unusual cultural practices in Africa and Asia, such as a cannibal tribe in Africa with ritualistic boar clubbing and a practicing South Pacific cargo cult. Europe and America had their share of weird behaviour represented, too, such as inbred Italians and a restaurant in New York where posh patrons dine on insects. For a time subsequent Mondo films would adhere to this premise. In the 80s the films dropped unusual cultural practices as subject-matter and begun to focus exclusively on gruesome ways in which people and animals can die, with such films sometimes regarded as being in a sub-subgenre called "Death Films". Another offshoot common in [[The Sixties]] was to documentaries about strippers and other excuses for women to be topless.
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