mondo
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- noun
- /ˈmɒndoʊ/
- NSFW
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documental sensacionalista
- If there is any doubt that Canadian culture is flourishing, look at what the irreverent cynics, Geoff Pevere and Greig Dymond, have to say in Mondo.
- Mondo Canuck
Examples
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The film was a true mondo experience, showcasing bizarre rituals from around the world.
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But it took a somewhat irreverent book on Canadian pop culture called Mondo Canuck, published last fall and written by two young television journalists, Geoff Pevere and Greig Dymond, to strip away all the veneer and get at the root of what being Canadian is all about.
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I hosted a conference on the-- well, like an online forum for Mondo 2000, the magazine that was published at the time.
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The book is called Mondo Canuck.
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As Pevere and Dymond observed in Mondo Canuck:
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Critics praised the mondo documentary for its shocking portrayal of extreme sports.
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Her latest project is a mondo film that explores unusual cultural practices in remote communities.
Synonyms
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A film that shows real events, people, or issues
How Sensational
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mondo comes from the Italian mondo, 'world'. The film title 'Mondo Cane' used that idea to show shocking scenes from around the world, so a mondo film is a documentary that focuses on strange or shocking parts of the 'world'.