Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson...

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Peter Stanfield Richard Maltby

Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions

Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson

Peter Stanfield, Richard Maltby

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Rutgers University Press
15 June 2011

Film, TV & Radio; Film movie scripts & screenplays; Film movie production: technical skills; Screenwriting techniques

"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."

By: Peter Stanfield
Foreword by: Richard Maltby
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9780813550626
ISBN 10: 0813550629
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 June 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson

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)