Pulp Culture by Woody Haut
Pulp Culture takes the reader on a walk down the Mean Streets of post-war America to investigate the classic texts of American hardboiled crime fiction and the era from which they came. With crooks hiding in every doorway and commies lurking under every bed, crime fiction?its gaudy paperback covers portraying men with guns and women with low necklines?was avidly read by a nation adjusting to the Cold War and the Atomic Era. Pulp Culture gives post-war crime fiction a political and irreverent reading, examining the politics of paranoia, private detection and criminality; the origins of crime fiction; the role of women in a male-dominated genre; and why the early 1960s marked the final days of classic hardboiled fiction.
?The Cold War may have thawed, but Haut recreates its chill, and brilliantly analyses the paperbacks that preempted the dystopian worlds of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino? Observer ?A fascinating insight into the roots of modern american hardboiled fiction and its developmentThere is little doubt in my mind that Pulp Culture will become one of the major reference books in our field? Maxim Jakubowski ?Essential reading for all crime readers? Time Out
Born in Detroit in 1945, Woody Haut grew up in Pasadena, California, attended San Francisco State University, and has lived in Britain since the early 1970s. Presently a London-based journalist, he has worked as a college lecturer, taxi-cab driver, record shop assistant, cinema programmer and Labour Editor for Rolling Stock magazine (US).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852423193 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852423196 |
| Title | Pulp Culture |
| Author | Woody Haut |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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