eBook

Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions

Stanfield, Peter

2011

Overview

In the words of Richard Maltby . . . \"Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions 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--Kiss Me Deadly, Shock Corridor, Fixed Bayonets!, I Walked with a Zombie, The Lineup, Terror in a Texas Town, Ride Lonesome--pumped out for the grind houses at the end of the urban exhibition chain by the studios' B-divisions and fly-by-night independents. The other is occupied by critics, intellectuals, cinephiles, and filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Manny Farber, and Lawrence Alloway, 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. Against the legitimate, and in defense of the illegitimate, in an insolent and unruly manner, they agitated for the recognition of lurid sensational crime stories, war pictures, fast-paced Westerns, thrillers, and gangster melodramas were claimed as examples of the true, the real, and the authentic in contemporary culture--the foundation upon which modern film studies sits.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 20th century / achieve / analyses / Asian American Studies / Asian Studies / Bangladesh / Bangladeshi / Britain / challenges / class / communities / community / comparative / complex significance / conducted / critical source / Criticism and interpretation / Detective and mystery stories / Detective and mystery stories, American / Detective and mystery stories, American-History and criticism / Detective and mystery stories-Film adaptations / diaspora / difficulty / dignity / Direction & Production / economic gains / efforts / Ethnic Studies / everyday lives / examines / explores / family life / Film & Video / film adaptations / Film criticism / Film criticism-Great Britain-History-20th century / Film criticism-United States-History-20th century / Film noir / Film noir-History and criticism / Film Studies / focuses / fresh insights / Fuller, Samuel, 1912–1997 / Fuller, Samuel,-1912-1997-Criticism and interpretation / fundamentalist movements / gender / global contexts / Great Britain / History / History and criticism / honor / ideologies / in-depth interviews / international / Islam / Islamization / Malaysia / Middle East / migrant flows / migrants / migrations / Motion / multiple identities / Muslims / nationality / Nazil Kibria / PERFORMING ARTS / PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production / PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Screenwriting / PERFORMING ARTS / General / prevailing stereotypes / prominence / realize / Religion / role / Screenwriting / sense / shape / societies / Sociology / Spillane, Mickey, 1918–2006 / Spillane, Mickey,-1918-2006-Criticism and interpretation / Spillane, Mickey,-1918-2006-Film adaptations / strive / support / sustain / Thompson, Jim, 1906–1977 / Thompson, Jim,-1906-1977-Criticism and interpretation / Thompson, Jim,-1906-1977-Film adaptations / U.S / United States
• ISBN: 0813550610, 9780813550619