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Girl gangs, biker boys, and real cool cats : pulp fiction and youth culture, 1950 to 1980 / edited by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette ; with a foreword by Peter Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Subculture--History--20th century.
- Subculture.
- Counterculture--History--20th century.
- Counterculture.
- Pulp literature--History and criticism--20th century.
- Pulp literature.
- Counterculture in literature.
- Book cover art--History--20th century.
- Book cover art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : PM Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- This book, edited by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette, explores the vibrant subcultures of youth in the mid-20th century through the lens of pulp fiction. It delves into the themes of juvenile delinquency, beatniks, and the countercultural movements that characterized the 1950s to 1980s. By examining literary works and cultural phenomena, the book aims to highlight the impact of pulp fiction on youth culture and its representation of rebellious, unconventional lifestyles. Targeted at scholars and enthusiasts of cultural studies, the work provides insight into the intersection of literature and social change during this dynamic period. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- 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 Fiction's Juvenile Delinquents
- The Pulp Delinquents: The Teenage Crime Wave and 1950s Pulp Fiction
- Evan Hunter'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 DeRoo
- Teddy Boy, by Ernest Ryman
- The Feather Pluckers, by John Peter Jones
- In Too Deep, by Bruce Nicholson
- Bodgies, Widgies and Bent Cops: Gunther Bahnemann'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, Jr
- The Warriors, by Sol Yurick
- Beat Girls and Real Cool Cats: 1960s Beats and Bohemians
- Tomorrow Is a Drag: Beats and Bohemians in 1960s Pulp Fiction
- Ann Bannon and the Beebo Brinker Chronicles
- 'Beat' in Fiction and Fact: The Books of John Trinian
- Shake Him Till He Rattles, by Malcolm Braly
- Marijuana Girl, by N.R. De Mexico
- Laura Del-Rivo's The Furnished Room
- Baron's Court, All Change, by Terry Taylor
- Party Girls and Passion Pits: The Pulp Fiction of Sydney's Kings Cross
- The Spungers, by Julian Spencer
- Love Tribes: Hippies and the Pulp Fiction of the Late-60s and Early-70s Counterculture
- Turn On, Freak Out: Late-60s Hippie Pulp
- Two Travel Through
- or, The Skinny Shall Inherit the Earth, by Glen Gainsburgh & Peter Whitehead
- The Disappearance of Adam Diment
- The Carnaby Street Spy
- "Whoever Was in Control Was the One to Watch": An Interview with Floyd Salas
- What Now My Love, by Floyd Salas.
- Dress Her in Indigo, by John D. MacDonald
- From Acid Temple Ball to Wimmen's Comix: Sharon Rudahl's Adventures in the Underground
- 144 Piccadilly, by Samuel Fuller
- Satanic Slaves and Hippie Death Cults: Charles Manson-Inspired Paperbacks
- Nothing to Lose: An Introduction to the Work of Jane Gallion
- "The Power of the Word": A Letter from Jane Gallion
- Sappho in Absence, by John Crosby
- Harris in Wonderland, by Philip Reid
- The Hardboiled Hippie: The Detective Fiction of Brad Lang
- Groupies and Immortals: Pulp Fiction Music Novels
- Hot Lips, by Jack Hanley
- Wild Beats: Australian Rock Pulps
- A Sad Song Singing, by Thomas B. Dewey
- Sir or Madam, Will You Read My Book? British Beat Group and Rock Fiction of the 1960s
- Cold Iron, by Robert Stone Pryor
- Drummer, by Richard Carlile
- The Destroyer #13: Acid Rock, by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
- The Drop Out, by Hugh Miller
- Wheels of Death: Pulp Biker and Motorcycle Gangs
- The Leather Boys, by Eliot George
- A Rock-and-Roll Lord of the Flies: Davis Wallis's Only Lovers Left Alive
- Bonnie, by Oscar Bessie
- Black Leather Barbarians: The Biker Pulp of New English Library
- Bike Boys, Skinheads and Drunken Hacks: Laurence James Interviewed
- The High Side, by Max Ehrlich
- Bikie Birds, by Stuart Hall
- Cults of Violence: 1960s British Youthsploitation Novels
- The Best of British 'Bovver': Richard Allen and New English Library
- Gender, Sexuality and Control in New English Library Youthsploitation Novels of the 1970s
- Soccer Thug, by Frank Clegg
- Agro, by Michael Parry
- The Punk, by Gideon Sams
- Gang Girls, by Maisie Mosco
- Outsiders: Late-60s and Early-70s American Pulp and the Rise of the Teen Novel
- Something in the Shadows: An Interview with Marijane Meaker
- James Bond Never Surfed: The Surfer Spy Pulp of Patrick Morgan.
- Operation Hang Ten: An Interview with George Snyder
- The Grass Pipe, by Robert Coles
- The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
- A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, by Alice Childress
- Frank Bonham's Dogtown
- Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
- High School Pusher, by Jack W. Thomas
- Kin Platt's Young Adult Novels
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781629634586
- 1629634581
- OCLC:
- 1009327403
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