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The Golden Age of Pulp: 1920s to 1940s. The early decades of the 20th century witnessed the explosive growth of pulp fiction magazines, particularly during the 1920s and 1930s. As the industry expanded, publishers like Street & Smith and Argosy Press began pumping out dozens of titles. Each of these titles would focus on different genres or niches.
Pulp Fiction almost single-handedly revived the genre of the "neo-noir"—a postmodern spin on the film noir, a sub-genre of crime-drama film that flourished in the postwar era, featuring morally flawed anti-heroes, femme fatales, and complex plots. "Neo-noir" added to this a healthy dose of non-linear storytelling, daylight scenes, and black ...
May 14, 2014 · Pulp Fiction at 20: How a phenomenon was born. Quentin Tarantino’s homage to disreputable genres stormed Cannes 20 years ago. Tom Brook shows how the film became a sensation. In May 1994 Nelson ...
Sep 8, 2024 · She wrote short fiction for The Times, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Realm, and The Star, inheritors of pulp publishing in journalism, after their decline. Harlequin entered into a ( literal ) handshake partnership with Mills & Boon, and that marked the beginning of their return into pulp-style (read: spicy) romance.
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For many in Generation X, there is the time before Pulp Fiction (1994) and there is the time after Pulp Fiction. The shift in consciousness – personal, cultural, cinematic – was seismic. As the story goes, Gen X was the first self-consciously postmodern generation, hyper-aware of its place in history and obsessed with popular culture: the movies, t...
After premiering at Cannes in May of 1994, where it won the Palm d’Or, Pulp Fiction opened in the US in October of that year. The buzz had been building all summer but the shock of it was still visceral and immediate and the movie became a polarizing sensation. Along with the mostly stellar reviews – Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers called it “indispu...
Many remember Pulp Fiction as a massive comeback for John Travolta, and it was, launching him into huge commercial stardom in the second half of the 1990s in films that included the indelible Get Shorty (1995) (and the less delible Phenomenon (1996) and Michael [1996]). Travolta also became an action star of sorts (as did virtually all male leads i...
Save for a segment of the anthology Four Rooms (1995) and an episode of ER, Tarantino didn’t direct for three years after the release of Pulp Fiction. Instead, he became a celebrity presence, clearly relishing his new status as pop culture icon. Internet Movie Database lists the director as having made 175 (!) post-Pulp Fiction appearances as “hims...
Pulp Fiction was the apex of the indie film renaissance of the 1990s. It was also, in a sense, the movie that killed it – and not just because all the shallow rip-offs and self-conscious homages diluted its freshness. Pulp Fiction helped indie film go big business, with studios pumping more money into specialty divisions and marketing and everybody...
1. About 170 million in 2014 dollars. 2. The other three nominations went toQuiz Show,Four Weddings and a Funeral andThe Shawshank Redemption.
Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary. [3] It tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles, California. The film stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman.
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Dec 29, 2014 · The book was a paperback original from Gold Medal Books, and, completely contrary to the author’s intention, it became one of the first titles in the genre of lesbian pulp fiction. The cover ...
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