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Author Walz, Robin, 1957-

Title Pulp surrealism : insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris / Robin Walz.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Surrealism and Popular Culture; 1. The Baedeker of Hives; 2. The Lament of Fant'mas; 3. Murder, Mirth, and Misogyny; 4. Is Suicide a Solution?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary 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.
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Subject Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture.
France -- Paris.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Surrealism (Literature)
Surrealism (Literature)
French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Social change.
Social change.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Walz, Robin, 1957- Pulp surrealism. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520216199 (DLC) 99034874 (OCoLC)41516555
ISBN 9780520921863 (electronic book)
0520921860 (electronic book)
0585391696 (electronic book)
9780585391694 (electronic book)
9780520216198 (alkaline paper)
0520216199 (alkaline paper)
1597348406
9781597348409