“Mondo,” being the Italian word for world, should be a neutral noun. Yet go to any modern dictionary and find a variety of definitions far from the original. “Adjective: enormous; huge; extremely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mondo cinema posters A soldier in Zanzibar raises his rifle over his head before smashing it down on to the car windscreen. Shards ...

Filmmaker Gualtiero Jacopetti — the man behind documentary “Mondo Cane” and its sequels, cult classics that collected examples of the creepy and bizarre from around the world — died Wednesday in Rome.

When the Italian film director Gualtiero Jacopetti, who has died at the age of 91, made Mondo Cane (A Dog’s Life) in 1962, he tapped into people’s curiosity and provided the strangest commercially ...

The Italian director and screenwriter was part of the team that triggered the "shockumentary" craze. By Mike Barnes Gualtiero Jacopetti, the Italian director and screenwriter behind the Italian mondo ...

Insofar as he’s known at all, Italian director Gualtiero Jacopetti is known as the father of “Mondo,” or “shockumentary,” cinema—and Insofar as he’s known at all, Italian director Gualtiero Jacopetti ...

Gualtiero Jacopetti, 91, an Italian moviemaker who made an art form of documenting the bizarre, the ironic and the unclothed with the provocative film “Mondo Cane” and the “shockumentaries” it spawned ...

When the satirical US rock group The Tubes wanted to shock audiences in the mid-Seventies, they had their lead singer, Fee Waybill, wear a leather mask and thong, and little else, as he shone a ...