Angie was a marked woman , paying her own ransom with a body none could resist.
Someone has spent an incredible amount of time and energy scanning in lesbian pulp fiction covers from the 50's and 60's. An interesting look into what was considered titillating 40 years ago.
posted by patrickje
on Jan 8, 2003 -
21 comments
"Pulp" means a lot of different things today. To many people, "pulp"means something lurid, sleazy and sensationalist. That's what Quentin Tarantino meant when he called his movie "
Pulp Fiction," a violent and outrageous look at the seedy side of American life. "Pulp" refers to something thrilling and low-rent at the same time - that, at least, is a common definition of the term.
"Pulp," however, can refer to
something more specific, a certain kind of
magazine. [more inside]
posted by mooseindian
on Aug 7, 2002 -
15 comments
Danger! Sex! Romance! From the early 1900s and seemingly hitting their height of popularity in the '40s (during WWII) pulp novels had heroes doing "manly", heroic things like "smashing the Axis" and evading the charms of villainous vixens. Witness:
Doc Savage, Man of Bronze or
The Shadow (Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Not Alec Baldwin.) Pulps also explored more subversive elements,
like lesbianism. The tradition seems to live on in modern times with
Remo Williams (The Destroyer).
posted by owillis
on Dec 15, 2001 -
8 comments
