Packet 2: Tossup 5

Note to players: specific term required. While shooting a 1969 film that parodies this genre, the Dreamlanders were nearly arrested on the JHU campus. For a film in this genre set in Sweden, the composer of “Twilight on the Sea” wrote a song popularized by Red Skelton, Benny Hill, and The Muppets; that song from a film in this genre is “Mah Nà Mah Nà.” A heart attack sustained while watching a (-5[1])1962 film (-5[1])in this genre on TV killed Yves Klein. The orchestral theme “More” (“MOH-ray”) was written for a film in this genre (15[1])by Riz (*) Ortolani. This genre’s name precedes (-5[1])a word meaning “dog,” cane (“KAH-nay”), in the title of the (10[1])film (10[2])and idiom for which it is named; (10[2])that film’s blend of graphic violence and realism influenced Cannibal Holocaust, whose crew were (10[1])from the (10[1])country (-5[1])that created (10[1])this genre. For 10 points, what genre of exploitation documentary film has a name meaning “world” in Italian? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[5])

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