| Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks, 1900-1975 Contributor(s): Gertz, Stephen J. (Author), Nocenti, Annie (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1932595341 ISBN-13: 9781932595345 Publisher: Feral House OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2008 Annotation: While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing, and outlandish misinformation, drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. "Dope Menace "collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs' "Junkie "to the spaced-out psychedelic '60s. We mustn't forget the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the '70s, when anything was everything. Author Stephen J. Gertz is a well-regarded authority on antiquarian books and contributor to Feral House's "Sin-A-Rama," an award-winning visual history of sleaze paperbacks from the sixties. Annie Nocenti, longtime editor of "High Times "magazine, offers an informative foreword. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Popular Culture - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) |
| Dewey: 741.640 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.5" W x 9.8" (1.40 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dope Menace boasts hundreds of full color images from the wicked subgenre of drug-exploitation narratives... The covers that made these authors books so easy to pick up are collected here for the first time, in all their seductive and transgressive glory.--Tucson Weekly While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing, and outlandish misinformation, drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. Dope Menace collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs' Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic '60s. We mustn't forget the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the '70s, when anything was everything. Author Stephen J. Gertz is a well-regarded authority on antiquarian books and contributor to Feral House's Sin-A-Rama, an award-winning visual history of sleaze paperbacks from the sixties. Annie Nocenti, longtime editor of High Times magazine, offers an informative foreword. |