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  • Though the film "World on a Wire" most resembles is Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 pulp-fiction dystopia "Alphaville," with wider neckties and groovier furniture, it may have just been a genre Mr. Fassbinder wanted to try out.

    Taking a Relic Over the Moon Steve Dollar 2011

  • In sharp contrast will be Kezban Arca Batibeki's pulp-fiction images of glamorous women in competition.

    A Modern Turkish Affair Margaret Studer 2011

  • Among the fans this pulp-fiction villain has attracted over that span are such as Magritte and Juan Gris, who painted him; James Joyce, who coined the adjective 'enfantomastic'; Kurt Weill, who wrote the music for The Ballad of Fantômas; Julio Cortázar, who pitted Fantômas against the Multinational Vampires.

    Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011

  • Each time that this type of pulp-fiction becomes popularized by the marketing machine that backs it, it destroys strong women's icons and turns heightens the Ophelia archetype, encouraging young women, still in their formative years to convert to victim mentality, rather victorious mindset.

    Today's Book Review 2009

  • Among the fans this pulp-fiction villain has attracted over that span are such as Magritte and Juan Gris, who painted him; James Joyce, who coined the adjective 'enfantomastic'; Kurt Weill, who wrote the music for The Ballad of Fantômas; Julio Cortázar, who pitted Fantômas against the Multinational Vampires.

    Howard A. Rodman: A Spectre is Haunting Los Angeles: Fantômas at the Hammer Museum Howard A. Rodman 2011

  • This slow-boiling horror film throws a curve ball at its audience, letting its two compelling leads (Amanda Fuller and Australian actor Noah Taylor, a pulp-fiction sociopath incarnate) generate sympathy before the violence erupts.

    Faded Glories and Foreign Flavors Steve Dollar 2010

  • Hollywood movies, I think, have their roots in early 20th century pulp-fiction narrative forms.

    Beastly Bride interview wiv me shweta_narayan 2010

  • In recent years, Mr. Prince has blurred the line between his art and his collecting through his purchases of racily illustrated pulp-fiction novels from the 1950s.

    An Artist Amasses a Rare Collection Robert P. Walzer 2011

  • The printouts show "appropriated" covers of pulp-fiction books that Prince has placed with the illustrator's original renderings such as "Massacre Trail," a Western novel with a cross and covered wagon on the cover, and "Jet Set Nurse," with psychedelic peacock feathers swirling around the curvaceous hospital attendant in question.

    The Court of Modernism Alastair Gordon 2011

  • But the book was embraced by the Americans too; it won a Hugo award, science fiction's Oscar, named for Hugo Gernsback, king of the US pulp-fiction magazines.

    The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

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