Some Pulp

Culture

A retrospective meditation on media, art, and technology from the 1950s onward. Hosted by Bruce L. Edwards gregariously and with wit and wisdom up until his passing.

Episodes

19 - The Tweet Is Not All: Books in the 20th Century and the Future of Reading

18 - Politics in the Mid-20th Century

17 - California Dreaming

16 - The Men from A.C.R.O.N.Y.M: The Golden Age of Cold War Narratives in 60s TV, Film, and Fiction

15 - Imagine There's No Internet: The Rise of Personal Computers in the Life of an Academic

14 - School’s Out: 4 Ever? Hey, What About Chess Club? Schooling from the ‘60s to the ‘10s

13 - JFK and The Day Camelot Died

12 - Disneyland, Elfego Baca and Mary Poppins: Disney's Impact in the 1950s and 60s

11 - From Hootenany to Shindig: Music Television Circa 1964

10 - Sputnik: the Space Race and Disney’s Tomorrowland (Nostalgia for a Future That Never Happened)

9 - Comics in the 1950s and 60s -- Green Lantern is Too Yellow to Defeat Yellow

8 - Robot Parade: From Klaatu to the 6 Million Dollar Man

7 - Our Nightly Noir: TV’s Dark Anti-Heroes in the 1950s and 1960s

6 - I Don't Care If I Never Get Back: The Golden Age of Baseball Radio Broadcasts

5 - Watch Them Talk: The Evolution of TV Talk Shows in the 50s & 60s

4 - My Narnia, Not Yours: Why C. S. Lewis Mistrusted Film

3 - Brian Wilson - Surf, Sand, and Studio Revolution

2 - How The West(ern) Was Won - and Lost

1 - The Signpost Up Ahead - The Twilight Zone