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AMAZING PULP SUSPENSTORIES: DEATH! SEX! MAYHEM! SUPERLATIVES!
Orikaeshigitae
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Registered User, ClubPA regular
So, I fucking love pulp fiction.
Starting in the late 19th century, pulp magazines were a response to the needs of working-class workers for cheap entertainment. Publishers combined cheap printing techniques, cheap paper (pulp) and cheap authors to create lurid, often exploitative short stories and novels.
They were the precursor to superhero comics, and in many ways their template. Pulps spawned quite a few radio serials and eventually, tv shows. And then, shitty remakes.
I'm surprised nobody's made a The Shadow movie.
In addition to this, crime magazines provided the foundation of most of the 20th century's fascination with crime media, which we can see in CSI.
Authors like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (an ex-Pinkerton agent) started the hardboiled detective genre in magazines like Black Mask, which lead in part to awesome things like this:
and this:
Sometimes, more 'literary' authors got in on the action:
Although pulps died out in the fifties with the rise of television, comics, and cinema, their aesthetics passed on to exploitation and b-movies and then to Quentin Tarantino.
Sure, sometimes they were misogynist
and racist
but overall, they were fucking awesome, and a product of their times, which gives them some leeway.
In summary,
Starting in the late 19th century, pulp magazines were a response to the needs of working-class workers for cheap entertainment. Publishers combined cheap printing techniques, cheap paper (pulp) and cheap authors to create lurid, often exploitative short stories and novels.
They were the precursor to superhero comics, and in many ways their template. Pulps spawned quite a few radio serials and eventually, tv shows. And then, shitty remakes.
I'm surprised nobody's made a The Shadow movie.
In addition to this, crime magazines provided the foundation of most of the 20th century's fascination with crime media, which we can see in CSI.
Authors like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (an ex-Pinkerton agent) started the hardboiled detective genre in magazines like Black Mask, which lead in part to awesome things like this:
and this:
Sometimes, more 'literary' authors got in on the action:
Although pulps died out in the fifties with the rise of television, comics, and cinema, their aesthetics passed on to exploitation and b-movies and then to Quentin Tarantino.
Sure, sometimes they were misogynist
and racist
but overall, they were fucking awesome, and a product of their times, which gives them some leeway.
In summary,
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Are you serious?
unless you are suggesting it is so bad that it shouldn't exist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_(film)
it had alec baldwin in it!
Not in mine.
EDIT: Dang it shoe!
argh i'm puking everywhere
jordyn: which one
starring Alec Baldwin and everything
All y'all silly-geeses can get behind me.
It's a place in the lower level of the market that's got like cool posters and prints and shit. You would love it.
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i do! however, i can't link it because it is FULL O' TITTIES. Pulps turned into men's entertainment magazines, which turned into porno mags. Playboy used to run a SHITLOAD of short fiction because it was in the same vein as pulp mags.
it's called pulp international, and has some sweet fuckin' covers. also sweet fuckin.
Incidentally, Isaac Asimov's been published in Playboy
fuck yeah! i saw the map store but i would probably just explode from spontaneous orgasm if i went into that store.
so i guess bring a mop and a sponge.
Oh, it wasn't that bad.
you know, the kind of thing that was in Super Mario Bros. and Demolition Man, where everything looks like it's covered in garbage and it's like a slum with futuristic lettering
anybody know what I mean? I keep thinking "cyberpunk" but that doesn't feel right to me
pffffhahaha
dystopia?
Cyberpunk is accurate. Also dystopian future.
I'm going to find the best stuff on here
Like this:
I guess? that seems like a real general term though.
double dragon had some of that too.
that's a damn fine film.
Pretty much everything written by Raymond Chandler. Or I guess Graham Greene, because he wrote the third man's screenplay. He also wrote a novella with the same name.
Orson Welles actually reprised his character in The Lives of Harry Lime, a radio show that ran for a few years.
nope! what's it about?