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Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781935965633 BibTeX citation key: Bowden2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Batman", Collection of essays, Critique of ideology, Media effects, Superhero, USA, Wertham. Fredric Creators: Bowden, Johnson Publisher: Counter-Currents (San Francisco) |
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Abstract |
Jonathan Bowden was a paradox: on the one hand, he was an avowed elitist and aesthetic modernist, yet on the other hand, he relished such forms of popular entertainment as comics, graphic novels, pulps, and even Punch and Judy shows, which not only appeal to the masses but also offer a refuge for pre- and anti-modern aesthetic tastes and tendencies. Bowden was drawn to popular culture because it was rife with Nietzschean and Right-wing themes: heroic vitalism, Faustian adventurism, anti-egalitarianism, biological determinism, racial consciousness, biologically-based (and traditional) notions of the differences and proper relations of the sexes, etc. Pulp Fascism collects Jonathan Bowden’s principal statements on Right-wing themes in popular culture drawn from his essays, lectures, and interviews. These high-brow analyses of low-brow culture reveal just how deep and serious shallow entertainment can be. Table of Contents Foreword by Greg Johnson The Heroic in Mass & Popular Culture Comics & Graphic Novels Robert E. Howard Pulps Dystopia Popular Drama APPENDIX Index Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |
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Crude short pieces from a “leading thinker and spokesman of the British New Right” (editor Johnson). The author was interested in comic books as representing “orgies of violence, ugliness, meaninglessness, and sadomasochistic violence”, not in a critical, but cynical affirmative view, as “the sine qua non of Right-wing art”.
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