Essays about: "Quentin Tarantino"
Found 3 essays containing the words Quentin Tarantino.
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1. Beyond Crime and Space. How Quentin Tarantino conveys temporality and spatiality in relation to the characters in Reservoir Dogs
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : In my thesis I examine how the screenplay author and director Quentin Tarantino uses the literary format of the screenplay to convey the spatiality and temporality of the characters in the narrative. I also investigate how the reader’s perception of these factors is crystallized, by contrasting the screenplay with its film. READ MORE
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2. Does he look like a bitch? a.k.a. She's got the look a.k.a. Get the picture? a.k.a. Back to the suture Identification and interpretation in Kill Bill
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : In my essay I examine how the identificatory process of a spectator watching a cult film is altered when the film in question has a female protagonist and a high level of self-reflexivity (and other typically post-modern traits, such as pastiche and referentiality). I compare and combine different theoreticians who analyze these phenomena in order to see how the convergence of the elements create new, unforeseen effects that so far have not been explained. READ MORE
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3. History Unchained, the visual representation of Slavery in mainstream Hollywood Cinema
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : Through Hollywood film history there have been several, mostly inconvenient topics, that have been kept away from public conscience through the film industry and governmental censorship. Amongst the genocide on Native Americans and homosexuality, the topic of american slavery has been underrepresented in mainstream Hollywood. READ MORE
