Girl gangs, biker boys, and real cool cats : pulp fiction and youth culture, 1950 to 1980 by McIntyre, Iain; Nette, Andrew; Doyle, Peter instant download

Girl gangs, biker boys, and real cool cats : pulp fiction and youth culture, 1950 to 1980 by McIntyre, Iain; Nette, Andrew; Doyle, Peter instant download

1 online resource (337 pages), 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many of them never before reprinted, along with 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and-often overlooked-the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, Print version record, Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Peter Doyle -- Introduction by Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre: Savage Streets and Secret Swingers: The Longed-for World of Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture -- Teenage Jungle: Pulp Fictionâ#x80;#x99;s Juvenile Delinquents -- The Pulp Delinquents: The Teenage Crime Wave and 1950s Pulp Fiction -- Evan Hunterâ#x80;#x99;s Jungle Kids -- The Amboy Dukes, by Irving Shulman -- Some Sketches of the Damned: The Early Pulp Fiction of Harlan Ellison -- Playing Chicken: 1950s Hot Rod Pulps, Rumble at the Housing Project, by Edward DeRooTeddy Boy, by Ernest Ryman -- The Feather Pluckers, by John Peter Jones -- In Too Deep, by Bruce Nicholson -- Bodgies, Widgies and Bent Cops: Gunther Bahnemannâ#x80;#x99;s Hoodlum -- The Delinquents, by Criena Rohan -- The Rebels, by Carl Ruhen -- The Typewriter Was His Camera: Devil Girls and the Shadowy Literary Career of Edward D. Wood,