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Identifier	Thesis 1925
Author	Elterich, Geoffrey Kenneth, 1980-
Title	Tarantino : exposing the spectacle of the postmodern condition / Geoff Elterich
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2007
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Quentin Tarantino's four films of the 1990s-True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown-look at the complexities of cultural and racial identity in postmodern American society. The films illustrate the ways in which identity is constructed in the society of the image, a society defined by excessive consumption, globalization, and a reliance on images to process reality. Identity is created through a visual process of identification with the images we are presented every day. Many of these images have been, and continue to be, racist in nature. This paper looks at these four films and examines the ways in which Tarantino attempts to expose the spectacle of the postmodern condition. The four films represent a progressive arc in Tarantino's career. True Romance serves as a denouncement of the white fantasy of postmodern society. This film and Reservoir Dons serve to deconstruct white identity in the society of the image. The characters of Reservoir Dogs construct their identity in relation to the "Other" of black culture. The film itself illustrates the ways in which mainstream white culture consciously and unconsciously appropriates black culture. His next film, Pulp Fiction, focuses on the way individuals play a part in society and how blacks construct their identity in the same manner as whites. Pulp Fiction starts to erode the idea of black culture symbolizing authenticity. Jackie Brown openly and directly appropriates from black culture and illustrates how black culture is a part of the same spectacle as white culture. There has been much criticism focusing on the use of violence and racist language in Tarantino's films, most notably Henry Giroux, and this thesis deals with many of those criticisms. I assert that Tarantino's use of racist dialogue and violence is a comment on the society which produced these films and the characters in them. There have also been many who applaud Tarantino's aesthetics and his critique of postmodem society, such as Stanley Crouch, and I extend their analyses of Tarantino's work. This thesis examines all four of Tarantino's films from the 90s and scholarly works regarding Tarantino, as well as texts regarding postmodern culture and the society of the image, the construction of identity, and race relations in postmodern American culture.
Subject	Tarantino, Quentin Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures
Department	Department of English
Advisor	Dunne, Robert, 1964-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	213289885
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