| Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction Paper Edition Contributor(s): Roche, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496821157 ISBN-13: 9781496821157 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2018010430 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.13 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roche, David: - David Roche is professor of film studies at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier. He is author of Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? and Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction, and editor of Conversations with Russell Banks, all published by University Press of Mississippi. |