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Lourdes Grobet has documented the spectacle of Mexican professional wrestling, known as lucha libre (free fighting), for more than 25 years. The only woman to have worked in such proximity to the sport, Grobet has photographed the masked luchadores in many contexts--and always in their signature disguises, which practitioners have worn since 1942, when a wrestler named El Santo stepped into a Mexico City ring wearing a silver mask, literally changing the face of the game forever. The mask, always a symbolically rich object in Mexican culture, serves both as a retreat (into anonymity) and as an attack, as a weapon with which to disconcert and terrorize the opponent. Its visual appeal, especially when set in scenarios outside the ring, was quickly apparent to Grobet, who describes El Santo as "one of the teachers that most influenced me early on." In Lucha Libre: The Family Portraits, Grobet shows the wrestlers with their mothers, wives and girlfriends, sitting for w

Thumb wrestling meets lucha libre with this unique kit that brings the competitive Mexican sport to enthusiasts all over the world!Known for its bold costumes and memorable masks, lucha libre, or professional Mexican wrestling, is the most popular sport in Mexico after soccer and has become an international pop culture phenomenom. Kit includes: Two 2-inch vinyl lucha masks that cover your thumbs Two decorative capes 2-1/2-inch Wrestling display ring 3-1/2-inch Championship belt 48-page book on the history of lucha libre and six luchador profiles

Lourdes Grobet has documented the spectacle of Mexican professional wrestling, known as lucha libre (free fighting), for more than 25 years. The only woman to have worked in such proximity to the sport, Grobet has photographed the masked luchadores in many contexts--and always in their signature disguises, which practitioners have worn since 1942, when a wrestler named El Santo stepped into a Mexico City ring wearing a silver mask, literally changing the face of the game forever. The mask, always a symbolically rich object in Mexican culture, serves both as a retreat (into anonymity) and as an attack, as a weapon with which to disconcert and terrorize the opponent. Its visual appeal, especially when set in scenarios outside the ring, was quickly apparent to Grobet, who describes El Santo as "one of the teachers that most influenced me early on." In Lucha Libre: The Family Portraits, Grobet shows the wrestlers with their mothers, wives and girlfriends, sitting for w

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.

Measuring "12 X 11" This Hardcover 2010 First Edition Has Bright Silver Titles to Spine and Large Green/yellow Face to Front Board, Which Has a Bespoke Slipcase, Cut-out to Feature the Eyes and Mouth of a Masked Lucha Libra Ring Fighter, On the Front Board Beneath. 119pp with Preface By Photographer/author Katinka Herbert and Foreword By Kendo Nagasaki. the Following Pages, That Is 9 to 119, Consists of Full-page Photographs in Color and B/w, of Ring Fighters of the Mexican Lucha Libra By K. Herbert. Condition Vg in Vg Slipcase

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Sexo y violencia--now available again in paperback! 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. Viva la Lucha Libre! Now in its second printing.

Sexo y violencia--now available again in paperback! 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. Viva la Lucha Libre! Now in its second printing.

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Lucha Libre wrestling is nothing short of a phenomenon. Its inescapable visuals have completely permeated the mainstream, and its popularity grows exponentially every year, expanding out from Latin America to hold the entire world in its vise–grip. Dan Madigan will provide the ultimate guide for Lucha fans, in an awesome four–color book that will be undoubtedly informative and incredibly entertaining. Posters, photos, wrestling cards, handbills, mementos will be featured throughout the book. Personal recollections, quotes, stories and memories of Luchador's lives and experiences will provide the backdrop for a completely unique experience in sports.

Known as the Ultimate Underdog, the high-flying Rey Mysterio has been a fan favorite since his debut. Trained in Mexican lucha libre wrestling, Mysterio makes up for his small size with impressive acrobatic moves. Find out more in this exhilarating read for young students.

It's mayhem, murder and masks in the acclaimed genre-bending novel from the "First Lady of Hard Case Crime” Christa Faust (Money Shot, Choke Hold).Hoodtown, ghetto of masked wrestlers, inner-city sanctuary of hooded culture. Evolved from lucha libre, the family gimmick is sacred, and the mask is the sole expression of one’s identity.Now, Hood prostitutes are turning-up murdered and worse, unmasked, and the ‘Skin’ establishment is as much help as a paid-off ref. Enter X, former luchadora with a bruised past, a bum knee and no time to play Santo. She’s no hero, but there’s nobody else to tag-in, as her hunt for a killer uncovers a conspiracy that could take down all of maskedkind.Like Casablanca with wrestling masks, Hoodtown is vintage pulp noir with a lucha libre pop culture twist.This expanded second print edition of the long-sold out HOODTOWN includes introductory texts by Latina filmmakers Ivy Agregan and Gigi Saul Guerrero, a 12 page "Art of Hoodtown" gallery featuring unused roughs and originals by illustrator Rafael Navarro, and a sample chapter of Matt Wallace's lucha libre novella RENCOR: Life in Grudge City.

Señoras y Señores, put your hands together for the fantastic, spectacular, one of a kind . . . Niño!Fwap! Slish! Bloop! Krunch! He takes down his competition in a single move!No opponent is too big a challenge for the cunning skills of Niño―popsicle eater, toy lover, somersault expert, and world champion lucha libre competitor!A Neal Porter Book

Each week, Gabriel Romero's drive to Sunday mass takes him past 'El Ángel,' the golden statue at the heart of Mexico City that haunts his memories and inspires his future. Spurred by the memory of his parents, Gabriel is drawn to the secretive world of lucha libre, where wrestling, performance art and big business collide. Under the conflicting mentorships of one of lucha libre's famed gay exótico wrestlers and an ambitious young luchador whose star is on the rise, Gabriel must choose between traditions that ground him but may limit his future, and the lure of sex and success that may compromise his independence. Surrounded by a makeshift family of wrestlers, Gabriel charts a course to balance ambition, sexuality, and loyalty to find the future that may have been destined for him since childhood.

Los tigres del ring, un titre qui évoque les solles de combat bondées, où les catcheurs rebondissent dans les cordes et atterrissent dans le public...Bienvenue dans l'univers haut en couleurs des lutteurs mexicains, les Tigres du Ring ! Mais la Lucha Libre ne se limite pas aux dimensions du cuadrilátero. C'est une culture richissime qui mélange avec jouissance le cinéma Z, les romansphotos, le graphisme old school, le syncrétisme religieux mexicain... le tout dans une ambiance à la fois mystique et magique. Vous verrez des documents inédits, des images rares, des vieilles couvertures de magazines, des affiches imprimées à l'ancienne, des jouets radioactifs et des petites boîtes en fer blanc chargées d'amour et de souvenirs. L'ultime chapitre du livre vous téléportera dans le bouillonnement du Mexique d'aujourd'hui, grâce au reportage photo de Lucie Burton.Je n'ai pas écrit ce livre pour profiter d'un phénomène de mode. Je l'ai réalisé car je porte la Lucha Libre au plus profond de mon coeur. Pour moi, le catch mexicain représente une métaphore de la vie et de tous ses combats : La figure de Blue Demon me hante depuis de longues années, comme si j'y recherchais un père que je n'ai jamais vraiment eu. Mener ce projet signifiait aussi entreprendre un voyage au bout de moi-même.

Casi ganar es lo mismo que perder, aseguro alguna vez el Baron Gattoni, la figura mas misteriosa y legendaria del catch argentino. Un ser erratico y luminoso, un hombre de pasiones encontradas y amores volcanicos, de caracter imprevisible y fortaleza descomunal, Gattoni fue un grande de la lucha libre.Despues de triunfar en la Argentina, Gattoni lo abandono todo y se embarco en un tour deportivo alucinante y demencial, que lo llevo a Brasil, a Estados Unidos, Canada, Australia, Chile y que, ya viejo, lo encontro como luchador de sumo en Japon. Mientras en Buenos Aires, excepto por algunas pocas postales, su familia nunca mas supo de el. El Gran Gattoni reconstruye la saga de este gran luchador de la mano de su nieto, Claudio Peroni, que paso a paso va descubriendo la vida aventurera de su abuelo, el superheroe mitico de su infancia que parece rejuvenecer a medida que pasan los anos. Peroni retrata con afecto y asombro, con una destreza casi involuntaria, la relacion de Gattoni con las mujeres y con el durisimo ambiente de los luchadores. Sus giras extravagantes, el brumoso origen de su titulo nobiliario, su amistad con el ex presidente Nixon y su odio hacia Karadagian, contrafigura clave de esta historia.

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 sólo es un bello adorno característico del contexto propio de la 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 luchador nos lleva al borde de su personal misterio.

This book presents a colorful collection of eccentric and delightful match book covers, cigarette labels, travel brochures, calendars, packaging for countless regional products, pulp magazines, posters for bull fights, images of popular wrestling heroes of La Lucha Libre, and much more.

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 sólo es un bello adorno característico del contexto propio de la 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 luchador nos lleva al borde de su personal misterio.