Pulp Fiction

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by Dana Polan

British Film Institute

Due/Published December 2000, 96 pages, paper

ISBN 0851708080

For many Quentin Tarantinošs films, especially Pulp Fiction (1994), defined American cinema in the 1990s. The films are hard, fast, funny, stylish, and filled with clever allusions to other films--essential works of 90s chic postmodernism. Polan sets out to unlock the style and technique of Pulp Fiction. He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes its considerable narrative accomplishment and complexity. Polan argues that the macho attitudes celebrated in the film are much more complex and fragile than they sometimes seem.

Series: BFI Modern Classics