Girl gangs, biker boys, and real cool cats : pulp fiction and youth culture, 1950 to 1980

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The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as much about society’s deepest desires and fears as they do about the subcultures themselves. Featuring approximately 400 full-color covers, many of them never before reprinted, along with 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and-often overlooked-the actual words they wrote. It is a must read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural style, and the history of postwar youth culture

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Front Cover — Title Page — Half Title — Copyright — Contents — Foreword by Peter Doyle — Introduction by Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre: Savage Streets and Secret Swingers: The Longed-for World of Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture — Teenage Jungle: Pulp Fictionâ#x80;#x99;s Juvenile Delinquents — The Pulp Delinquents: The Teenage Crime Wave and 1950s Pulp Fiction — Evan Hunterâ#x80;#x99;s Jungle Kids — The Amboy Dukes, by Irving Shulman — Some Sketches of the Damned: The Early Pulp Fiction of Harlan Ellison — Playing Chicken: 1950s Hot Rod Pulps

Rumble at the Housing Project, by Edward DeRooTeddy Boy, by Ernest Ryman — The Feather Pluckers, by John Peter Jones — In Too Deep, by Bruce Nicholson — Bodgies, Widgies and Bent Cops: Gunther Bahnemannâ#x80;#x99;s Hoodlum — The Delinquents, by Criena Rohan — The Rebels, by Carl Ruhen — The Typewriter Was His Camera: Devil Girls and the Shadowy Literary Career of Edward D. Wood, Jr — The Warriors, by Sol Yurick — Beat Girls and Real Cool Cats: 1960s Beats and Bohemians — Tomorrow Is a Drag: Beats and Bohemians in 1960s Pulp Fiction

Ann Bannon and the Beebo Brinker Chroniclesâ#x80;#x98;Beatâ#x80;#x99; in Fiction and Fact: The Books of John Trinian — Shake Him Till He Rattles, by Malcolm Braly — Marijuana Girl, by N.R. De Mexico — Laura Del-Rivoâ#x80;#x99;s The Furnished Room — Baronâ#x80;#x99;s Court, All Change, by Terry Taylor — Party Girls and Passion Pits: The Pulp Fiction of Sydneyâ#x80;#x99;s Kings Cross — The Spungers, by Julian Spencer — Love Tribes: Hippies and the Pulp Fiction of the Late-60s and Early-70s Counterculture — Turn On, Freak Out: Late-60s Hippie Pulp — Two Travel Through

Or, The Skinny Shall Inherit the Earth, by Glen Gainsburgh & Peter WhiteheadThe Disappearance of Adam Diment — The Carnaby Street Spy — â#x80;#x9C;Whoever Was in Control Was the One to Watchâ#x80;#x9D;: An Interview with Floyd Salas — What Now My Love, by Floyd Salas — Dress Her in Indigo, by John D. MacDonald — From Acid Temple Ball to Wimmenâ#x80;#x99;s Comix: Sharon Rudahlâ#x80;#x99;s Adventures in the Underground — 144 Piccadilly, by Samuel Fuller — Satanic Slaves and Hippie Death Cults: Charles Mansonâ#x80;#x93;Inspired Paperbacks — Nothing to Lose: An Introduction to the Work of Jane Gallion

Â#x80;#x9C;The Power of the Wordâ#x80;#x9D;: A Letter from Jane GallionSappho in Absence, by John Crosby — Harris in Wonderland, by Philip Reid — The Hardboiled Hippie: The Detective Fiction of Brad Lang — Groupies and Immortals: Pulp Fiction Music Novels — Hot Lips, by Jack Hanley — Wild Beats: Australian Rock Pulps — A Sad Song Singing, by Thomas B. Dewey — Sir or Madam, Will You Read My Book? British Beat Group and Rock Fiction of the 1960s — Cold Iron, by Robert Stone Pryor — Drummer, by Richard Carlile

Includes bibliographical references (page 320) and index