The Classic Era Of The American Pulp Magazine
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Author | : Peter Haining |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
The period between the World Wars—the era of sexual liberation, Prohibition, the rise of organized crime, and the Great Depression—was also the classic era of American pulp magazines, the subject of this fascinating volume. Pulps, with their lurid color covers depicting the thrills of sex and violence, and with stories to match inside, fuelled America’s dreams—and nightmares. For a few cents they offered everything young men wanted: sex, action, adventure. But they also fostered the talents of some of the greatest popular writers of the century—Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett, among others—and virtually invented the genres of science fiction and hard-boiled crime. From the cheap thrills of the “hot” and “spicy” pulps and the sexual sadism of the “shudder” pulps to the weird worlds of the fantasy, sci-fi, and horror pulps, this book displays their art and tells their history, capturing the original magazines in all their sleazy, sensational glory.
Author | : Peter Haining |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
ISBN | : 9781853753886 |
The era between the wars in America was on of dramatic change and uncertainty, a time of sexual liberation, Prohibition, organized crime and the Great Depression. At such times of flux people look to escapism and fantasy to fill out their humdrum and troubled lives. Along with movies and radio, came the spectacular rise of the pulp magazines.
Author | : Adam Parfrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781627310116 |
Expanded edition covering the Adventure Magazine genre of Cold-War masculinity including new material wartime xenophobic American magazine articles and advertisements.
Author | : Tim DeForest |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786419024 |
The first half of the twentieth century was a golden age of American storytelling. Mailboxes burgeoned with pulp magazines, conveying an endless variety of fiction. Comic strips, with their ongoing dramatic storylines, were a staple of the papers, eagerly followed by millions of readers. Families gathered around the radio, anxious to hear the exploits of their favorite heroes and villains. Before the emergence of television as a dominant--and stifling--cultural force, storytelling blossomed in America as audiences and artists alike embraced new mediums of expression. This examination of storytelling in America during the first half of the twentieth century covers comics, radio, and pulp magazines. Each was bolstered by new or improved technologies and used unique attributes to tell dramatic stories. Sections of the book cover each medium. One appendix gives a timeline for developments relative to the subject, and another highlights particular episodes and story arcs that typify radio drama. Illustrations and a bibliography are included.
Author | : Tony Goodstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Detective, sci-fi, Western, supernatural, jungle, pirate, aviation, war, sports, horror, super hero, love, sex - these and more are the fantastic array of categories for the wonderful stories, features, articles, poems collected here from 50 years of pulp magazines ... the cradle and school of sensationalism for American pop culture.
Author | : Peter Haining |
Publisher | : Vintage Books USA |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Fantastic fiction, American |
ISBN | : 9780394721095 |
Author | : Lisa Yaszek |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0819576255 |
Anthology of stories, essays, poems, and illustrations by the women of early science fiction For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about "boys and their toys," pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre. Continuing this tradition, Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction offers readers a comprehensive selection of works by genre luminaries, including author C. L. Moore, artist Margaret Brundage, and others who were well known in their day, including poet Julia Boynton Green, science journalist L. Taylor Hansen, and editor Mary Gnaedinger. Providing insightful commentary and context, this anthology documents how women in the early twentieth century contributed to the pulp-magazine community and showcases the content they produced, including short stories, editorial work, illustrations, poetry, and science journalism. Yaszek and Sharp's critical annotation and author biographies link women's work in the early science fiction community to larger patterns of feminine literary and cultural production in turn-of-the-twentieth-century America. In a concluding essay, the award-winning author Kathleen Ann Goonan considers such work in relation to the history of women in science and engineering and to the contemporary science fiction community itself.
Author | : Jeremy Agnew |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2018-07-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 147663257X |
From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly. This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost--the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
Author | : David E. Sumner |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
ISBN | : 9781433104930 |
"The future of magazines? Murky. Their past? Glorious. How we got from there to here is told in this compelling history. It's thrilling, funny, disturbing, sad, and ultimately inspiring. And in these pages are broad and helpful hints on how we can return to glorious."---Richard B. Stolley, Founding Editor, People, and Senior Editorial Adviser, Time Inc. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Walter Mosley |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781484135716 |
A collection of stories featuring characters of African origin, or descent, in stories that run the gamut of genre fiction.