The cinema of Quentin Tarantino : essays on race, violence and history in the films /

"Quentin Tarantino is one of the most influential filmmakers to emerge in the last half-century. His films have been both critically acclaimed and embraced by audiences. With an oeuvre that includes such iconic films as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, In...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fisher, Kieran, 1989- (Editor), Rausch, Andrew J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : master filmmaker or emperor with no clothes? / Andrew J. Rausch and Kieran Fisher
  • Vitae necisque potestas : Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp fiction" (1994) and the sacred machinations of exception / Dara Waldron
  • Putting the punch in Elmore Leonard's "Rum punch" : Jackie Brown as homage / Charles J. Rzepka
  • Quentin Tarantino's sole aspect : foot fetishism in his films / Kevin Quigley
  • Not a straight line : "Kill Bill", three ways / Katharine Coldiron
  • Whose truth? race and Quentin Tarantino / Troy D. Smith
  • Form over content in "The hateful eight" : Tarantino's Acousmektos / Vlad Dima
  • Tarantino as adapter : "Hateful eight" (2015) as a remake of John Carpenter's "The thing" (1982) / Andrew J. Rausch and Kieran Fisher
  • Mash-ups and melodrama : more on men's emotions, male display and ultra-violence in "Django unchained" and "The hateful eight" / Sue Matheson
  • The D is not silent : Dangerfield, Django, and resistance to slavery / Bryan M. Jack
  • Fables and history : Tarantino rewrites both in "Once upon a tme ... in Hollywood" / Scott F. Stoddart.