- Taschenbuch: 144 Seiten
- Verlag: Chronicle Books (1. März 1993)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0811801128
- ISBN-13: 978-0811801126
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 27,7 x 21,6 x 1,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.171.803 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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What do Sam Spade, Doc Savage, Tarzan, and the Shadow have in common? The same thing as Raymond Chandler, Isaac Asimov, Cornell Woolrich, and H.P. Lovecraft: They all cut their teeth on the pulps--which are accorded a magnificently illustrated, authoritative homage here by Brooklyn-based writer Server. To Server, ``pulp'' is no pejorative. Though he admits that many of the estimated one million stories that appeared in the pulps were mediocre (and he gleefully quotes from examples of the worst), he argues that the pulps created ``an innovative and lasting form of literature'' and that ``the pulp-created genres- -science fiction, private eye, Western, superhero--now dominate...every sort of mass entertainment.'' After tracing the birth of the pulps back to the 1882 launching of Golden Argosy magazine, printed on pulpwood pages, Server organizes his unwieldy subject into categories of pulps: adventure, romance and sex, horror and fantasy, private eye, weird menace, science fiction. Each receives a lively capsule history that covers trends, reader (and sometimes, as in the case of the ``Spicys,'' government) response, and writers' bios--which, though sketchy (Hammett's Hollywood experience gets one sentence), resurrect a number of relatively obscure but seminal and fascinating figures, like Conan- creator Robert E. Howard, who shot himself dead at age 30 on the day his mother died, and Frederick Faust (a.k.a. Max Brand), who sometimes wrote around the clock, piling up two or three million words a year. Server attributes the pulps' demise to, among other factors, the advent of TV, paperbacks, and comic books, and he winds up with a note on pulp-collecting. For all of the author's savvy, though, it's above all the eye- popping illustrations (100 color, 57 b&w) that will have readers beaming. Magazine covers (some lurid, some of eerie beauty), sample pages of text and ads (``Raise Giant Frogs'')--the pulps come alive once again here, in all their eccentric glory. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Another well illustrated (color and b&w) work on popular culture. Subtitled: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines: 1896-1953 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Great! Traces origins of American popular fiction.
5. Juli 1998
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Meticulously researched and stylishly written. If you have any interest in the origins of science fiction, westerns, horror, terror, adventure stories or romance you should read this book. H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, L. Ron Hubbard, Dashiell Hammet, and countless others got their start in the pulps. The pulps also spawned such famous characters as the Shadow, Conan, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, Doc Savage and many more. Incredible illustrations and flowing prose. A gem.
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An excellent introduction to the pulps !!
7. Mai 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
Besides the great art within, the writing is fantastic. Lee Server always keeps it interesting and doesn't linger on a point too long. He provides a good overview of the pulps: what they are, how they formed, how they stayed alive, and how they died. He provides some bios of the major authors (whether or not they are collectable) and editors. And provides great information on the various genres.
If you're interested in pulps at all, i would recommend this as a great starting point before delving into this fascinating world.
If you're interested in pulps at all, i would recommend this as a great starting point before delving into this fascinating world.
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