[SKRIVA] Call For Papers: Pulp Studies
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*PULP STUDIES AREA*
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
National Conference
April 1–4, 2015
New Orleans, LA
*Deadline for Abstracts is November 1, 2014*
Pulp magazines were a series of mostly English-language, predominantly
American, magazines printed on rough pulpwood paper. They were often
illustrated with highly stylized, full-page cover art and numerous line
art illustrations of the fictional content. They were sold for modest
sums, and were targeted at (sometimes specialized) readerships of
popular literature, such as western and adventure, detective, fantastic
(including the evolving genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror),
romance, and sports fiction. The first pulp /Argosy/, began life as
the children’s magazine /The Golden Argosy/, dated Dec 2, 1882 and the
last of the “original� pulps was /Ranch Romances and Adventures/,
Nov. 1971.
The Pulp Studies area exists to support the academic study of pulp
writers, editors, readers, and culture. It seeks to invigorate research
by bringing together scholars from diverse areas including romance,
western, science fiction, fantasy, horror, adventure, detective, and
more. Finally, the Pulp Studies area seeks to promote the preservation
of the pulps through communication with libraries, museums, and
collectors. With this in mind, we are calling for papers and panels that
discuss the pulps and their legacy.
Possible authors and topics:
• *Magazines:* Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, Fight
Stories, All-Story, Argosy, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spicy Detective,
Ranch Romances and Adventures, Oriental Stories/Magic Carpet Magazine,
Love Story, Flying Aces, Black Mask, and Unknown, to name a few.
• *Editors and Owners:* Street and Smith (Argosy), Farnsworth Wright
(Weird Tales), Hugo Gernsback (Amazing Stories), Mencken and Nathan
(Black Mask), John Campbell (Astounding).
• *Influential Writers:* H.P. Lovecraft, A. E. Merritt, Robert E.
Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, C. L. Moore, Fritz Leiber, Raymond
Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton
Smith, and Henry Kuttner. Proposals about contemporary writers in the
pulp tradition, such as Joe Lansdale and Michael Chabon are also
encouraged. New Weird writers and others, such as China Mieville, whose
work is influenced by the pulps, are also of interest.
• *Influences on Pulp Writers:* H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle,
Sax Rohmer, and Jack London were all influences, along with literary and
philosophical figures such as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Edgar Allen Poe, and Herbert Spencer.
• *Popular Characters:* Conan of Cimmeria; Doc Savage; Solomon Kane;
Buck Rogers; Northwest Smith; The Domino Lady; Jiril of Joiry; Zorro;
Kull of Atlantis; El Borak; The Shadow; The Spider; Bran Mak Morn; Nick
Carter; The Avenger; and Captain Future, among others. Also character
types: the femme fatale, the he-man, the trickster, racism and villainy,
etc.
• *Artists: *Popular artists including Margaret Brundage (Weird
Tales), Frank R. Paul (Amazing Stories), Virgil Finlay (Weird Tales),
and Edd Cartier (The Shadow, Astounding).
• Periods: The dime novels; Argosy and the ancestral pulps; Weird
Tales, Amazing Stories, and the heyday of the pulps; the decline of the
pulps in the 50s and 60s; pulps in the age of the Internet.
• *Theme and Styles:* Masculinity, femininity, and sexuality in the
pulps; the savage as hero, the woman as hero, the trickster as hero,
colonialism in the pulps, racism and “yellow peril,� Modernism in
the pulps, etc.
• *Film and Television:* Possible topics could include film
interpretations such as /Conan the Barbarian/, pulp-inspired television
such as /Amazing Stories/, and new work based in the “pulp
aesthetic� such as /Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow./
• *Comics:* Comic book incarnations of pulp magazines and
series; “new weird� reinventions of the pulps such as the /League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen/ and /The Watchmen/; comic adaptations of old
pulp series such as /The Shadow/, /The Spider/, /Doc Savage/ and others.
• *Cyberculture:* Cyberpulps such as Beneath Ceaseless Skies and
pulp-influenced games such as the Age of Conan MMORPG or the Call of
Cthulhu role-playing game.
These are but suggestions for potential panels and presentations.
Proposals on other topics are welcome. For general information on the
Pulp Studies area, please visit our website: http://pulpstudies.weebly.com/
*How to Submit Proposals:*Proposals must be submitted through the
official PCA conference website: http://ncp.pcaaca.org/
Please send all inquiries to:
Justin Everett, PhD
Interim Director of Writing Programs
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
600 S. 43rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
j.everet@xxxxxxx
Jeffrey H. Shanks, RPA
Southeast Archeological Center
2035 E. Paul Dirac Drive
Johnson Building, Suite 120
Tallahassee, FL 32310
jeffrey_shanks@xxxxxxx
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