Pulp surrealism : insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations
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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