2006-06-25 08:36:03 · 8 answers · asked by plainsjain 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Pulp fiction are short stories which were sometimes written in magazines in the '40s and '50s.
2006-06-25 08:39:34 · answer #1 · answered by Demeter 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pulp Fiction may or may not have an era-specific strict definition, but generally speaking, it refers to cheap, sensationalist writing. As everyone else has stated the term comes from the cheap paper it was printed on. Examples of pulp fiction include comics, especially horror comics (i.e. Tales From the Crypt), lame paperbacks like you might find for sale at a supermarket, and probably those sleazy romance novels. Pulp fiction is not necessarily gory.
Off the topic, I never saw "Pulp Fiction", but I did have the misfortune of seeing "From Dusk till Dawn" and "Kill Bill, Volume 1." They both substitute violence and stupidity for plotlines. Tarantino should not be allowed to be a filmmaker.
2006-06-26 05:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by czimme3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pulp fiction or "pulps" refers to magazines published around the 1930's to 1950's. They were printed on short budgets on cheap rough paper as compared to the major "slick" magazines. The major genres represented in the pulps were mysteries, westerns and sciece fiction. Having read alot of Asimov, among others of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction," many of the top science fiction writers of the time and some still working today came up in the pulps. They provided a place for young inexperienced writers to sell stories and be published and the good or lucky ones went on to bigger and better things.
2006-06-26 00:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by tom5551 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pulp fiction refers to a genre of literature that was available only in cheap paperback. They were usually very poorly and quickly written by starving authors who needed a quick dime. The term refers to the paper that they were printed on. Many publishers felt they were not worth the pulp that it took to publish them. (pulp is what you make paper out of)
2006-06-25 08:39:05 · answer #4 · answered by irartist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually believe that Pulp Fiction refers to the writing style (genre) where the author does not write in sequence. The author shows you the ending before the beginning and the movie is set to reveal why things happen.
There have been many movies that use this style in recent years.
2006-06-25 08:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by Starlight 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pulp fiction refers to a type of writing that was meant to be used as cheap entertainment. It could be something like romance or cowboy stories or something like that. It's dramatic and senstational. It was produced on the cheapest paper available so the masses could afford it.
2006-06-25 08:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by tsopolly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pulp fiction is usually badly written short novellettes.Some are okay for killing time on the train or bus
2006-07-01 23:34:10 · answer #7 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you obviously didn't see all of it....at the very beginning they actually give you a dictionary difinition of what pulp fiction means....and that has got to be one of the best movies EVER MADE!!!!
2006-06-25 08:39:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋