Peter Stanfield

Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions

Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the words of Richard Maltby, this ""describes two improbably imbricated worlds and the piece of cultural history their intersections provoked."" One of these worlds comprises a clutch of noisy, garish pulp movies. The other is occupied by critics, intellectuals, cinephiles, and filmmakers who championed the cause of these movies and incited the cultural guardians of the day by attacking a rigorously policed canon of tasteful, rarified, and ossified art objects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780813550626
• ISBN-10: 0813550629
• Artikelnr.: 32737383

Autorenporträt

Stanfield, Peter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : yours till the boys come home
Position papers : in defense of pulp movies
A genealogy of pulp : Black mask to Mickey Spillane
A world of small insanities : the critical reception of Kiss me deadly
American primitive : Samuel Fuller's pulp politics
Authenticating pulp : Jim Thompson adaptations and neo-noir
Conclusion : hiding out in cinemas