Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction

by David Roche and David Roche

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496819160
• ISBN13: 9781496819161
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"