| The Tarantinian Ethics Contributor(s): Botting, Fred (Author), Wilson, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761968377 ISBN-13: 9780761968375 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $211.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: 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. The Tarantinian ethics are elaborated, in the midst of a homogenized fast-food, movie and video culture, in relation to heterogeneous events of violence, horror and laughter. Witty and incisive, the book illuminates and interrogates contemporary structures of identity, desire and consumption. It will be of great interest to students of cultural studies, social theory and communication.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2001272942 |
| Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.56" (0.98 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. The Tarantinian ethics are elaborated, in the midst of a homogenized fast-food, movie and video culture, in |
Contributor Bio(s): Botting, Fred: - "Fred Botting has taught English Literature, Critical Theory, Film and Cultural Studies at the Universities of Lancaster, Keele and Cardiff. He has written extensively on Gothic fictions, and on theory, film and cultural forms. His current research projects include work on fiction and film dealing with figures of horror - zombies in particular - and on spectrality, the uncanny and sexuality." |