Girl gangs, biker boys, and real cool cats
Subtitle: pulp fiction and youth culture, 1950 to 1980
By: edited by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette ; with a foreword by Peter Doyle
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781629634388
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Subculture; Subculture in literature; Counterculture in literature; History and criticism; Counterculture; Pulp literature; History
Description: The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as much about society's deepest desires and fears as they do about the subcultures themselves. Featuring approximately 400 full-color covers, many of them never before reprinted, along with 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and--often overlooked--the actual words they wrote. It is a must read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural style, and the history of postwar youth culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teenage jungle: pulp fiction's juvenile delinquents; title: Beat girls and real cool cats: 1960s beats and Bohemians; title: Love tribes: Hippies and the pulp fiction of the late-60s and early-70s counterculture; title: Groupies and immortals: pulp fiction music novels; title: Wheels of death: pulp biker and motorcycle gangs; title: Cults of violence: 1960s British youthsploitation novels; title: Outsiders: late-60s and early-70s American pulp and the rise of the teen novel.