Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson
Author:   Peter Stanfield ,  Richard Maltby
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9780813550626


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 June 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Peter Stanfield ,  Richard Maltby
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780813550626


ISBN 10:   0813550629
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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Stanfield's vivid prose, his attention to intellectual subtlety, and his grasp of large cinematic issues make for a very smart book that breaks new ground in its engagement with postwar American culture and criticism. --R. Barton Palmer author of Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (08/24/2010)


Stanfield's vivid prose, his attention to intellectual subtlety, and--R. Barton Palmer author of Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (08/24/2010)


Stanfield''s vivid prose, his attention to intellectual subtlety, and--R. Barton Palmer author of Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (08/24/2010)


Author Information

Peter Stanfield is a reader in film studies at the University of Kent, U.K. He is coeditor of Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film and ""Un-American"" Hollywood: Politics & Film in the Blacklist Era (both Rutgers University Press).

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