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Tarantinian ethics / Fred Botting and Scott Wilson.
LIBRA PN1998.3.T358 B688 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Botting, Fred.
- Series:
- Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tarantino, Quentin.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE, 2001.
- Summary:
- The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis, Botting and Wilson explore ethical issues in relation to Tarantino's work, postmodernity and recent cultural theory. They argue that Tarantino's texts provide a provocative and telling contribution to theorized accounts of contemporary culture.
- The term Tarantinian' has been coined to refer to a set of sampled, self-authorizing signs that are cinematically assembled in processes of consuming-producing-expending' in the general context of a postmodern capitalism that enjoins excess. The Tarantinian ethics are elaborated, in the midst of a homogenized fast-food, movie and video culture, in
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761968377
- OCLC:
- 48131933
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