The Classic Era Of American Pulp Magazines
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The Classic Era Of The American Pulp Magazine
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Author : Peter Haining
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Classic Era Of The American Pulp Magazine written by Peter Haining and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with American periodicals categories.
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.
The Classic Era Of American Pulp Magazines
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Author : Peter Haining
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Classic Era Of American Pulp Magazines written by Peter Haining and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
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.
Blood N Thunder Presents Pride Of The Pulps
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Author : Ed Hulse
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-05-29
Blood N Thunder Presents Pride Of The Pulps written by Ed Hulse and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-29 with categories.
During the pulp era - roughly the first five decades of the 20th century - more than one thousand all-fiction magazines reached the nation's newsstands, if only for a single issue. Of that number, just a couple dozen attained any reputation for literary quality, and fewer than half that many regularly published stories considered to be on a par with those accepted by the prestigious "slick" magazines. The top periodicals in the field - ADVENTURE, ARGOSY, BLUE BOOK, SHORT STORIES, THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, and a few others - were edited and packaged with loving care and consistently reflected the best that rough-paper magazines had to offer. And for decades American readers, ravenous for escapist entertainment, devoured them in weekly or monthly intervals. PRIDE OF THE PULPS contains lengthy, in-depth surveys of the most prestigious all-fiction magazines. Considerably revised and expanded from their original appearances in the award-winning journal BLOOD 'N' THUNDER, these essays reflect scholarly devotion and fannish enthusiasm in equal measure. They chart the evolutions of ADVENTURE, SHORT STORIES, THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, and several other periodicals of comparable quality, noting the memorable authors, stories, and characters that paraded across their woodpulp pages, entertaining readers through two World Wars and a Great Depression. PRIDE OF THE PULPS, profusely illustrated with cover art and interior illustrations from the pulp magazines under consideration, is the first volume in BLOOD 'N' THUNDER PRESENTS, a series of book-length histories of vintage American popular culture as reflected in books, magazines, comic strips, radio dramas, and motion pictures.
3 Books To Know Pulp Magazines
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Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
language : en
Publisher: Tacet Books
Release Date : 2020-05-02
3 Books To Know Pulp Magazines written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and has been published by Tacet Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-02 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Pulp Magazines. - A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. - Conan the Conqueror by Robert E. Howard. - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft.A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from FebruaryJuly, 1912. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard's suicide, although not the last to be written. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short novel by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. The novel, set in 1928, describes how Charles Dexter Ward becomes obsessed with his distant ancestor, Joseph Curwen, an alleged wizard with unsavory habits. This is one of many books in the series3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics
Pulp Art
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Author : Robert Lesser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Pulp Art written by Robert Lesser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
The term pulp fiction has always had a certain resonance; but it is the artwork--bold, energized, dramatic, garishly colorful, and frequently grotesque--that has made pulp magazines memorable to so many people. Pulp Art is the groundbreaking--and ultimate--book on one of America's most important and spectacular forms of illustration art. At last, preserved in this volume are most of the still-existing originals created for the pulp covers, never before seen in all their sharply focused, vibrantly colored brilliance. Robert Lesser, a pioneering collector of this work and an expert on American popular culture, has assembled a gallery of these now-priceless originals. The dynamically pulp-flavored text is a complete historical survey of the pulps and their most important cover artists--Virgil Finlay, J. Allen St. John, Rafael de Soto, Hannes Bok, George and Jerome Rozen, Frank R. Paul, and many others. Also offered are critical discussions of individual paintings, as well as the major themes of the pulp magazines.
The Age Of Dimes And Pulps
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Author : Jeremy Agnew
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-07-25
The Age Of Dimes And Pulps written by Jeremy Agnew and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Fantastic Pulps
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Author : Peter Haining
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Release Date : 1976-01-01
The Fantastic Pulps written by Peter Haining and has been published by Vintage Books USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Fantastic fiction, American categories.
The Magazine Century
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Author : David E. Sumner
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
The Magazine Century written by David E. Sumner and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with American periodicals categories.
"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.
The Art Of Pulp Fiction An Illustrated History Of Vintage Paperbacks
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Author : Ed Hulse
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-09-28
The Art Of Pulp Fiction An Illustrated History Of Vintage Paperbacks written by Ed Hulse and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970. The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks--like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers--are treasured collector's items. Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres. Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued. With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).
Storytelling In The Pulps Comics And Radio
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Author : Tim DeForest
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-05-20
Storytelling In The Pulps Comics And Radio written by Tim DeForest and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.