Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats by Iain Mcintyre

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats by Iain Mcintyre

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. From the juvenile delinquent gangs of the early 1950s through the beats and hippies, on to bikers, skinheads, and punks, pulp fiction left no trend untouched. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as much about society's deepest desires and fears as they do about the subcultures themselves.

Girl Gangs features approximately 400 full-color covers, many of them never reprinted before. With 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles from more than 20 popular culture critics and scholars from the US, UK, and Australia, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and--often overlooked--the actual words they wrote. Books by well-known authors such as Harlan Ellison and Lawrence Block are discussed alongside neglected obscurities and former bestsellers ripe for rediscovery. It is a must read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural style, and the history of postwar youth culture.

Contributors include Nicolas Tredell, Alwyn W. Turner, Mike Stax, Clinton Walker, Bill Osgerby, David Rife, J.F. Norris, Stewart Home, James Cockington, Joe Blevins, Brian Coffey, James Doig, David James Foster, Matthew Asprey Gear, Molly Grattan, Brian Greene, John Harrison, David Kiersh, Austin Matthews, and Robert Baker.

Andrew Nette is a Melbourne crime writer and freelance journalist. He is a founder and one of the editors at Crime Factory Publications, a Melbourne-based small press specialising in crime fiction. His short fiction has appeared in a number of publications, including Phnom Penh Noir, The One That Got Away, Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled 3 and Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels. He is co-editor of Beat Girls, Love Tribes and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 - 1980, forthcoming from Verse Chorus Press in 2015. Ghost Money is his first novel. His online home is www.pulpcurry.com. You can find him on Twitter at @Pulpcurry.

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ISBN 13	9781629634388
ISBN 10	1629634387
Title	Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats
Author	Iain Mcintyre
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	PM Press
Year published	2017-11-01
Number of pages	328
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.