It's A Man's World by Adam Parfrey

It's A Man's World by Adam Parfrey

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It's A Man's World by Adam Parfrey

It's a Man's World was first released in 2003 to critical acclaim and was featured on the cover of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and in the New York Times. This rich collection, filled with interviews, essays, and color reproductions of testosterone-heavy thirty-five-cent magazines with names like Man's Exploits, Rage, and Escape to Adventure (to name a few), illustrates the culture created to help veterans confront the confusion of jobs, girls, and the Cold War on their return from World War I and the Korean War.

Contributions from the original men's magazine talent like Bruce Jay Friedman, Mario Puzo, and Mort Kunstler bring the reader inside the offices, showing us how the writers, illustrators, editors, and publishers put together decades of what were then called armpit slicks. Reproductions of original paintings from Norman Saunders, Kunstler, and Norm Eastman are featured within, and Bill Devine's annotated checklist of the many thousands of adventure magazines is essential for collectors of the genre.

The expanded paperback edition includes wartime illustrations and advertisements from mass-produced magazines that preview the xenophobia and racist ideas later seen throughout men's adventure magazines of the '50s and '60s.

Since his influential collection, Apocalypse Culture, was first released in 1987, the award-winning writer Adam Parfrey has been credited for discovering and revealing the inner workings of cults and unusual pop culture histories. With Love, Sex, Fear, Death, Parfrey has captured the cooperation of primary players in the most secretive and talked about cult of our time.
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780922915811
ISBN 10 0922915814
Titre It's A Man's World
Auteur Adam Parfrey
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Hardback
Éditeur Feral House,U.S.
Année de publication 2003-05-01
Nombre de pages 260
Prix Runner-up for IndieFab awards (Popular Culture) 2003, Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Popular Culture) 2004
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