movies – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:09:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Things I didn’t post on FaceBook and Why https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2018/01/15/things-i-didnt-post-on-facebook-and-why/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2018/01/15/things-i-didnt-post-on-facebook-and-why/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2018 23:26:59 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=675 A brief list:

  • Quote from Simone de Beauvoir’s Mémoires d’une Jeune Fille Rangée about her désespoir. On second thought, pretentious. Plus Facebook’s auto-translate would mangle the meaning.
  • Opinion of I, Tonya. On second thought, my private opinion. Why share?
  • Opinion of Darkest Hour. Ditto.
  • Opinion of Moontide. Ditto.
  • Comment on depressing story in news. I think a dozen people have already said the same thing. And if I try for originality I’ll end up making another Ayn Rand reference and leaving the wrong impression.
  • Comment on American political situation. What is there to say, really? Parallels to French under occupation kind of pretentious as well as obscure.
… Read more ]]> https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2018/01/15/things-i-didnt-post-on-facebook-and-why/feed/ 5 675 Flowers for Aaron https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/08/20/flowers-for-aaron/ Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:48:14 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=177 I’m always on the look out for traces of past pop culture in contemporary offerings. Perhaps in honor of The Bourne Legacy I should call this DNA or something, but I don’t know enough science to work the term into an apt metaphor. Anyway, it was when super soldier Aaron revealed that if he didn’t get the green pills he’d revert to a mental retard that I had the insight: The Bourne Legacy is merely Flowers for Algernon done as a thriller. Did screenwriting brothers Tony and Dan Gilroy read the Bantam classic as it was being passed around in class, the way I did? If I recall correctly, we … Read more

]]> 177 Career Girls, 1942 Style https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/01/26/career-girls-1942-style/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:29:26 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=28 There was a double feature playing a few nights ago, Laura and Bedelia, both based on books by Vera Caspary. I was so exhausted from the grueling Noir City Film Festival pace (four movies on Saturday) that I thought I’d skip the movie version of Laura (which I’ve seen more times than I can remember) and read the book instead.

Caspary wrote Laura in 1942, and the eponymous heroine is a curtain opener for the career girls who would later flood the fiction market. In 1943 the New York Times called this story of an advertising executive who is presumed murdered and then turns up alive and becomes a … Read more

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