ARTH 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dime (United States Coin), Popular Publications, The Graphic

• School: McGill University
• Department: Art History & Communications
• Course: ARTH 354
• Professor: William O Straw

Document Summary

General: 3 kinds of media, 1) audio visual, 2) bureaucratic, 3) print culture, media theory. Intermediality: the presence of one medium within another: use of other media used to help develop another form of media (think about audio visual) Pulp magazines: flou(cid:396)ished i(cid:374) late (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s 1940/50, called pulp magazines because of what they were printed on (quality and sourced) 3 antecedents of the pulp magazine in the u. s: (cid:1005)(cid:895) (cid:862) to(cid:396)(cid:455)-pape(cid:396)s(cid:863): (cid:396)ese(cid:373)(cid:271)led a (cid:374)e(cid:449)spape(cid:396), (cid:271)ut (cid:272)o(cid:374)tai(cid:374)ed fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al sto(cid:396)es. Pictures on cover display the movement towards pulp magazines. Begin to disappear in 1915 (replaced by pulp magazines: (cid:1007)(cid:895) (cid:862)pulp fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) magazi(cid:374)es(cid:863, characteristics, all fiction (basically no non-fiction, ize: (cid:1011)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:1005)(cid:1004) (cid:862) (cid:894)fe(cid:449) e(cid:454)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s(cid:895, colored (elaborate) cover and cheap black/white interior, o(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es (cid:272)o(cid:374)tai(cid:374)ed se(cid:448)e(cid:396)al sto(cid:396)ies. Magazines) hierarchy established (slicks vs. pulps: slicks: nice and shiny / clean and good quality paper, pulps: rough / cheap paper, both reference a social class as well.