Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

by Robin Walz

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. The provocative nature of this insolent mass culture resonated with the intellectual and political preoccupations of the surrealists, as Robin Walz demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520216199
• ISBN13: 9780520216198
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"