Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory by Bloom, Clive - 1998

New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover/trade, flat uncreased spine, clean square and tight, vii, 262 pages with full page b & w photo frontis of 'The Queen of Cheese - Betty Page'. Near Fine condition. "Here is an exploration of pulp literature & pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature & theory of the contemporary mind in art & in life. Here too, the violent, the sensational & the erotic signify different facets of the modern experience played out in the gaudy pages of kitsch literature. Concentrating on remembered authors as well as many long disregarded or forgotten, Cult Fiction provides a theory of kitsch art that radically alters our perceptions of literature & literary values while providing a panorama of an almost forgotten history: the history of pulp." Contents include: Et In Arcadia Ego / 'Scuse me Mr H'officer: An Introduction / Throwing Rice at Brad and Janet: Illicit, Delinquent Pleasures / Turnig the World Round: The Print Revolution / A River So Deep: Literacy, Language / Outlaws Against The Law Badge: Readers Reading / Smart Like Us: Culture & Kulcha / Living in Technicolor: The Rules of Pulp / Ars Gratia Artis / The Ripper Writing: A Cream of a Nightmare Dream / West is East: Nayland Smith's Sinophobia & Sax Rohmer's Bank Balance / This Revolting Graveyard of the Universe: The Horror Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft / Harry and Marianne: The Never Ending Supernatural Soap / Requiescat / The Death o Cult Fiction and the End of Theory / notes / index. Check out the scans. . 1st Soft Cover Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Shane Marsh cover illustrator; . 8vo.