Dope menace: the sensational world of drug paperbacks, 1900-1975

"Dope Menace boasts hundreds of full color images from the wicked subgenre of drug-exploitation narratives... The covers that made these authors books so easy to pick up are collected here for the first time, in all their seductive and transgressive glory."-- Tucson Weekly. While we now en...

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1. Verfasser: Gertz, Stephen J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Port Townsend, WA Feral House 2008
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Zusammenfassung:"Dope Menace boasts hundreds of full color images from the wicked subgenre of drug-exploitation narratives... The covers that made these authors books so easy to pick up are collected here for the first time, in all their seductive and transgressive glory."-- Tucson Weekly. While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing, and outlandish misinformation, drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. Dope Menace collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughsrsquo; Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic 60s. We must not forget the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the 70s, when anything was everything.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:219 p. überw. Ill. 26 cm
ISBN:9781932595345

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