American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

Paula RabinowitzPrinceton University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0691173382

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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

Paula RabinowitzPrinceton University Press

ISBN-10: 0691173389 · ISBN-13: 978‑0691173382 · 2016

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Paula Rabinowitz examines the visual and literary evolution of midcentury mass-market paperbacks, tracing how these inexpensive volumes democratized modernist aesthetics for a broad American audience.

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Publisher: Princeton University Press
2016
Pages: 408Language: English

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Inferred: Book DesignInferred: Graphic DesignInferred: History Of PublishingInferred: Popular CultureInferred: Paperback DesignInferred: Midcentury ModernismInferred: Modernism

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