{"id":18909,"date":"2020-03-02T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=18909"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:46:46","slug":"brushstrokesthe-lurid-covers-of-20th-century-pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokesthe-lurid-covers-of-20th-century-pulp-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes:The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twentieth century pulp fiction democratised literature and contained within it a rich, dynamic world of crime, intrigue, sensuality and melodrama all rolled into one. It is interesting to observe the gender and sexual politics that are portrayed in the covers of these pulp novels. Considering how sexuality was a running (and selling) theme in the stories, and female sexuality was employed as a means to titillate and attract readers, the covers often reflected this. An exhibition at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University revisits the \u2018lurid\u2019 imagery of these book covers in an exhibition highlighting \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/385022\/pulp-fiction-cover-art-at-the-wolfsonian\/\">28 examples of this vivid popular art<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Cover Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poster-Humphrey-Bogart-Lauren-Ridgely\/dp\/B000OL1VCG\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering how sexuality was a running (and selling) theme in pulp fiction stories, and female sexuality was employed as a means to titillate and attract readers, the covers often reflected this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":18934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,2171,7],"tags":[1317,373,2173,68,25,499],"class_list":{"0":"post-18909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-literature-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-literature","12":"tag-misogyny","13":"tag-pulp-fiction","14":"tag-sex","15":"tag-sexualities","16":"tag-women"},"menu_order":396,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18996,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions\/18996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}