The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis, Botting and Wilson explore ethical issues in relation to Tarantino's work, postmodernity and recent cultural theory. They argue that Tarantino's texts provide a provocative and telling contribution to theorized accounts of contemporary culture. The term “Tarantinian” has been coined to refer to a set of sampled, self-authorizing signs that are cinematically assembled in processes of “consuming-producing-expending” in the general context of a postmodern capitalism that enjoins excess.

Details

Subjects

Cinema

Keywords

Cinema, Criticism

Personalities

Tarantino Quentin

Type

Book

Place of publication

London

Year

2001

Number of pages

187 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780761968375

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

Yes

UDC code and author sign

791 Bot

Volumes

1

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