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Quentin Tarantino : poetics and politics of cinematic metafiction
- Title
- Quentin Tarantino : poetics and politics of cinematic metafiction / David Roche.
- Author
- Roche, David, 1976-
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
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- Description
- viii, 341 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification. Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films' poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention (history, race, gender, violence), others less so (narrative structure, style, music, theatricality). Roche sets Tarantino's films firmly in the legacy of Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, and the New Hollywood, revising the image of a cool pop-culture purveyor that the American director cultivated at the beginning of his career. Roche emphasizes the breadth and depth of his films' engagement with culture, highbrow and lowbrow, screen and print, American, East Asian, and European."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331), filmography (pages 319-320) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One "What Shall the History Books Read?" History and Film History -- ch. Two "Black Man, White Hell" Identity Politics Vol. 1: Race and Ethnicity -- ch. Three "That's the Excuse You Guys Use Whenever You Want to Exclude Me from Something" Identity Politics Vol. 2: Gender (and Sexuality) -- ch. Four "Revenge Is Never a Straight Line" A Neoformalist Approach Vol. 1: Narrative Structures and Paradigms -- ch. Five "Everything's the Same Except for One Change" A Neoformalist Approach Vol. 2: Narration and Style -- ch. Six "Lookin' Back on the Track, Gonna Do It My Way" The Use of Preexisting Music -- ch. Seven "Come On, Let's Get into Character" Acting and Theatricality -- ch. Eight "He's Just Not Used to Seein' a Man Ripped Apart by Dogs Is All" Violence and Spectacle.
- Call Number
- MWES (Tarantino, Q.) 18-6633
- ISBN
- 9781496819161
- 1496819160
- 9781496821157
- 1496821157
- LCCN
- 2018010430
- 40028460857
- OCLC
- 1030444924
- Author
- Roche, David, 1976- author.
- Title
- Quentin Tarantino : poetics and politics of cinematic metafiction / David Roche.
- Publisher
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331), filmography (pages 319-320) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Roche, David, 1976- Quentin Tarantino. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018] 9781496819178 (DLC) 2018015498
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028460857
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Tarantino, Q.) 18-6633