Consider the following questions and techniques and include at least some of the following content .
You should be discussing how and why the film uses some experimental or postmodern techniques and
decide in a personal response how "experimental" the film actually is.
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
Is Pulp Fiction an experimental film ?
Is it non-narrative cinema ( like some purely experimental films ) or does it feature narratives and more traditional cinematic storytelling ?
Does the film contain any experiments or subversions of the rules of film form, narrative structure or enigmas ? Did any previous films or film movements inspire these ? e.g French New Wave . or postmodernism ?
POSTMODERNIST TECHNIQUES
Is it a postmodernist film ? Which postmodernist techniques does it use ?
What do these techniques add in terms of content or meaning ?
Intertextuality : For example, intertextuality. Pulp Fiction has a huge variety of explicit and more subtle intertextual references. Does it make the film more realistic or change the meaning of the text in any way ? What doe these references add ?
Does it have a classic postmodern dark and ironic mood , with a casual attitude to violence ? Does the film have a single and clear meaning and resolution or a more ambiguous and fractured resolution ?
Eclecticism : Does the film have a range of influences from both high culture ( e.g literature, European art film ) and low culture ( e.g comic books, American TV , action films ) ?
Are any whole scenes or stories complete pastiches or parodies of other films or genres or does Tarantino just use intertextual references and occasionally steal plot ideas ? For example
Reflexivity : Does the film ( or any scenes ) draw attention to itself as a media text in a self-concsious way e.g breaking the fourth wall ? I couldn't think of anything apart from some of the more extreme uses of framing and camera movement that feel "self-concsious"
Is Tarantino's Jack Rabbit Slims an example of bricologe ( a collage of intertextual references to other films and actors or even a a comment on hyperreality , where the media is more real to use than reality?)
GENRE
Does the film just follow or does it play with or subvert any audience expectations or conventions of the crime genre ?
Consider ideas of stereotypical or familiar characters in crime movies, familiar stories and iconography narrative structure and resolutions in crime movies and how enigmas are usually resolved in the crime genre
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