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Studies in American culture [0888-5753]
yr: 1997 vol: 20 iss: 1 pg: 39
treatment of homosociality; masculinity; in Tarantino, Quentin (1963- ): Pulp Fiction (1994); relationship to French Arthurian romance
| Title: | 'Style,' Posture, and Idiom: Tarantino's Figures of Masculinity |
| Author(s): | Willis, Sharon |
| Source: | pp. 279-95 IN: Gledhill, Christine (ed.); Williams, Linda (ed.); Reinventing Film Studies. London, England; New York, NY: Arnold; Oxford UP; 2001. (xvi, 464 pp.) |
This book chapter examines the masculine styles and posturing in Tarantino's films. Because Tarantino has created a world of characters who are violent, sensitive, and cool, this investigation into the types of men in Tarantino's work serves as an overview work for this topic.
tagged films masculinity pulp_fiction style tarantino by laallen ...on 19-OCT-05
From the article "In this essay, I want to suggest that Pulp Fiction's emphasis on story and story telling indicates a discernable interest in time or, more precisely, different aspects of time in cinema. With its fractured narrative structure, for example, Pulp Fiction exploits film's unrivaled facility for temporal construction and (re)ordering. As Ralph Stephenson and J. R. Debrix observe "the cinema can repeat, prolong, abbreviate, or reverse the events on the screen. Past, present, and future time can be mixed in any order. A film breaks up the continuity of time in the real world, and out of the physical time of reality creates an abstract film time." (Stephenson and Debrix, 1976: 124) Pulp Fiction explores this abstract film time in a provocative, yet accessible and thoroughly enjoyable fashion." The article also includes a little bibliography of the film
TARANTINO'S INCARNATIONAL THEOLOGY. By: Brintnall, Kent L.. Cross Currents, Spring2004, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p66, 10p-75; (AN 13437881)
The article explores the ethical and erotic dimensions of physical brutality against the male body as they appear in theological discourses and cinematic texts, specially in the motion picture Reservoir Dogs, directed by Quentin Tarantino
tagged films pulp_fiction resevoir_dogs tarantino by laallen ...on 05-OCT-05
| Title: | American Culture X: Identity, Homosexuality, and the Search for a New American Hero |
| Author(s): | Brandt, Stefan |
| Source: | pp. 67-93 IN: West, Russell (ed.); Lay, Frank (ed.); Subverting Masculinity: Hegemonic and Alternative Versions of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi; 2000. (267 pp.) |