Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback
Anthem Press · Paperback · January 16, 2024
This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II.
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- Who it’s for
- Andrew Nette examines Horwitz pulp paperbacks and their role in postwar Australian publishing.
- Themes
- Australian publishing history, Creative labor, Global modernity in postwar Australia
- Genres
- Language Arts, Australian & Pacific Lit Crit, 20th-Century Literary Criticism
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This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been so far recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback from the late 1950s onwards.
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Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback examines the authorship, production, marketing and distribution of Horwitz pulp paperbacks. It includes ground-breaking material on the conditions of creative labour: the writers, artists and editors involved in the production of Horwitz pulp. The book also explores how Horwitz pulp paperbacks acted as a local conduit for the global modern: the ideas, sensations, fascinations, technologies, and people that came crashing into the Australian consciousness in the 1950s and 1960s.
Horwitz’s Paperback World
Andrew Nette examines Horwitz pulp paperbacks and their role in postwar Australian publishing.
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- The authorship, production, marketing, and distribution of Horwitz pulp paperbacks
- Writers, artists, and editors behind the books
Expect
- Creative labour behind the pulp
- Ideas, technologies, and people reaching Australia in the 1950s and 1960s
Where it sits
| Language Arts | 57% |
|---|---|
| Australian & Pacific Lit Crit | 49% |
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Collecting Books
- Australian & Pacific Collections
- Australian & Pacific Lit Crit
- Authors
- Andrew Nette
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Published
- January 16, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Australian publishing history · Creative labor · Global modernity in postwar Australia
- Reading lane
- Collecting Books