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A dime Western is a modern term for Western-themed dime novels, which spanned the era of the 1860s–1900s.Most would hardly be recognizable as a modern western, having more in common with James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking saga, but many of the standard elements originated here: a cool detached hero, a frontiersman (later a cowboy), a fragile heroine in danger of the despicable outlaw ...
The women-in-prison film (or WiP film) is a subgenre of exploitation film that began in the early 20th century and continues to the present day. [1]Their stories feature imprisoned women who are subjected to sexual and physical abuse, typically by sadistic male or female prison wardens, guards and other inmates.
After 1938, when the magazine's editorial offices moved from Chicago to New York City, a new 'decency' standard was imposed (primarily through the efforts of then-mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia) on pulp magazines sold at newsstands, and the nude or semi-nude young women that had been the primary subjects of Brundage's covers were out ...
Celebrating its 30th anniversary on Oct. 14, “Pulp Fiction” has left a massive footprint on moviemaking. Originally conceived as an anthology by writer-director Quentin Tarantino and his ...
The Pulp Western: A Popular History of the Western Fiction Magazine in America. Borgo Press. ISBN 0-89370-161-0. Goodstone, Tony (1970). The Pulps: 50 Years of American Pop Culture. Bonanza Books (Crown Publishers, Inc.). ISBN 978-0-394-44186-3. Goulart, Ron (1972). Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazine. Arlington House.
It’s true, the movies in Tarantino’s eclectic oeuvre – including the Oscar-nominated director’s masterpiece "Pulp Fiction," which is celebrating its 30th anniversary – range from decent ...
Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 [1] by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan.It is most well-known today for launching the hardboiled crime subgenre of mystery fiction, publishing now-classic works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Paul Cain, Carroll John Daly, and others.
The peak era for these was the era from roughly 1959 until 1986, when, due to the Meese Commission (a contribution by Park Dietz), and the end of a few of the publishers of detective (or "true crime") magazines, the main era of the bondage cover ended, though there were a few issues of Detective Dragnet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a ...