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.

Heterosexual anxiety and the idealization of 'the wife' are seen as central components of "Pulp fiction"; focuses on the near-constant scatalogical references in the film's dialogue and the fractured nature of the narrative itself as evidence of this.