Pulp Surrealism

Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

Szerző: Robin Walz

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of California Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

Küldés 9-15 napon belül

12 935 Ft

In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement dre...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Robin Walz

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2000

oldal

218

EAN

9780520216198

ISBN

0520216199

Enbook ID

04616411

Kiadó

University of California Press

Súly

486

Méretek

236 x 159 x 21

Teljes leírás

In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provocative nature of this insolent mass culture resonated with the intellectual and political preoccupations of the surrealists, as Robin Walz demonstrates in this fascinating study. "Pulp Surrealism" weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, re-evaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement. "Pulp Surrealism" presents four case studies, each exploring the out-of the-way and impertinent elements which inspired the surrealists. Walz discusses Louis Aragon's "Le paysan de Paris", one of the great surrealist novels of Paris. He goes on to consider the popular series of "Fantomes" crime novels; the Parisan press coverage of the arrest, trial, and execution of mass-murderer Landru; and the surrealist inquiry 'Is Suicide a Solution?' , which Walz juxtaposes with reprints of actual suicide faits divers (sensationalist newspaper blurbs). Although surrealist interest in sensationalist popular culture eventually waned, this exploration of mass print culture as one of the cultural milieux from which surrealism emerged ultimately calls into question assumptions about the avant-garde origins of modernism itself.

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Pulp Surrealism

Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

Információk a könyvről

Teljes leírás

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták