Maximum MoviesPulp Fictions Film Culture and the by Peter Stanfield PAPERBACK

Maximum MoviesPulp FictionsFilm Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson\nAuthor(s): Peter Stanfield\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813550626, 978-0813550626\nSynopsis\nIn the words of Richard Maltby . . . \""Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions describes two improbably imbricated worlds and the piece of cultural history their intersections provoked.\"" One of these worlds comprises a clutch of noisy, garish pulp movies--Kiss Me Deadly, Shock Corridor, Fixed Bayonets!, I Walked with a Zombie, The Lineup, Terror in a Texas Town, Ride Lonesome--pumped out for the grind houses at the end of the urban exhibition chain by the studios' B-divisions and fly-by-night independents. The other is occupied by critics, intellectuals, cinephiles, and filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Manny Farber, and Lawrence Alloway, who championed the cause of these movies and incited the cultural .