Media and Literature

Pulp Fiction : Media History

For most students the term pulp fiction is just a reference to a particular movie. The movie title refers to a particular North American print genre that has had an important impact on other media. Use the Links provided below to learn more about
Pulp Fiction
and the bloody pulps.

Pulp Links

(Archives and Special Collections Department)


(a guide to the online world of pulp magazines definitions, history, examples & links)


Tales from the Vault - online exhibit of of Canadian pulp fiction, pulp cover art, and the history of pulp literature in Canada throughout the 1940s and 1950s. From the Library and Archives of Canada, in English and French.

(The 1930s and '40s were a time of heroes...)




(An Unofficial Doc Savage Site)

(a short definition)

( background and samples)

(online samples) 

(a return to Victorian values ?)

(excellent site for history & definitions check timeline and tour)



(biography of this "hard-boiled" mystery writer)

(conventions of theses film genres)

(defines film characteristics, including femme fatale )








~*Sites just for entertainment*~





Media and Literature

Pulp Fiction : Media History

For most students the term pulp fiction is just a reference to a particular movie. The movie title refers to a particular North American print genre that has had an important impact on other media. Use the Links provided below to learn more about
Pulp Fiction
and the bloody pulps.

Pulp Links

(Archives and Special Collections Department)


(a guide to the online world of pulp magazines definitions, history, examples & links)


Tales from the Vault - online exhibit of of Canadian pulp fiction, pulp cover art, and the history of pulp literature in Canada throughout the 1940s and 1950s. From the Library and Archives of Canada, in English and French.

(The 1930s and '40s were a time of heroes...)




(An Unofficial Doc Savage Site)

(a short definition)

( background and samples)

(online samples) 

(a return to Victorian values ?)

(excellent site for history & definitions check timeline and tour)



(biography of this "hard-boiled" mystery writer)

(conventions of theses film genres)

(defines film characteristics, including femme fatale )








~*Sites just for entertainment*~