Pulp Fiction was originally magazines with tales about bigger than life characters solving crimes or rescuing a damsel in distress. The stories were written on “pulp” which was the cheapest paper available in the 1930’s and 40’s. The low price and exotic new stories drew in readers like moths to a flame. The stories were filled with violence‚ risqué scenes with women‚ and drug use all too off the wall to be published by the major outlets of the time. But some authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Ray
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fantasies’.1 They are stereotyped into vacuous roles such as the romantic interest‚ damsel in distress and femme fetale. Female characters are given little to no agency by white male writers and this is overt in 20th century hard-boiled American crime fiction. In the works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler‚ female characters exist only to serve as foils to re-emphasize the hyper-masculinity of the Continental Op and Phillip Marlowe‚ their respective detective protagonists. I put emphasise on the
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Analysis of Pulp Fiction by Alan Stone Alan Stone states his thesis as “Pulp Fiction is already building a cult following‚ even as its mother-fucker language and graphic violence offends others” (610). Much like Tarantino’s film‚ Stone’s article biases toward an audience with a high level of tolerance for violence‚ sick humor‚ and strong language and his ideas jump around like the scenes in the movie and leave the reader confused with poor organization. Right from the introduction paragraph
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Taylor Rogers 4/8/12 O’Neal Paper 3 ENGL 1023 Character Analysis Can one character make an entire script move with reason? In the script “Pulp Fiction” by Quentin Tarantino Vincent Vega is that voice of reason that makes the entire script move. In the script “Pulp Fiction” by Tarantino Vincent Vega is portrayed and used as the voice of reason‚ and always uses logic to get to his final assumptions. In the first scene we come across Vincent he is talking to Jules about
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Cited: Kingston‚ Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. New York: Random House Inc.‚ 1976. Macauley‚ Robie‚ George Lanning. Technique in Fiction. New York: St. Martin’s Press‚ 1987.
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mystery and so on. But this is only recent development. There is a lot more to it than most people think. From a French man named Vidocq to the creation of modern detective fiction by Edgar Allan Poe‚ until today’s development of detective stories and its characters. So what made Poe such an important figure in detective fiction history‚ and in what way did his creation develop after his death? In my study I will try to answer these questions to the best of my capabilities. People started to take
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Sci-Fi Formal Essay Quote: "I don ’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." Ray Bradbury Science Fiction is a popular and interesting genre’s to read. It is a genre that helps childhood dreams of living in other worlds come to life‚ It is known as the literature of ideas because of the concept of imagination used in the stories e.g. time traveling‚ space travel‚ alien races‚ dystopias‚ utopias etc. It brings us to an imaginative world of the future helping us portray
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One of my favorite aspects regarding Tarantino style is how he chooses to exclude characters or their faces from shots. This can be seen in several times in Pulp Fiction as well as Kill Bill vol 1. In Pulp Fiction we don’t actually see Marcellus’s (Ving Rhames) face till late in the movie all we see is the back of his head with a single Band-Aid on it. Ultimately the effect of this shot is building up Marcellus and giving him an intimidating aura. Tarantino does a similar style of shot when introducing
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Genre and Science Fiction Genre‚ as defined by the Oxford dictionary (2010)‚ is “a style or category of art‚ music‚ or literature”. It is a term that is easy to define but hard to understand. The mere division of what one genre is compared to another has been problematic for academics and scholars for centuries. As noted by Robert Allen‚ genre study has become “the division of the world of literature into types and naming of those types”. This has led the study of genre to become a more scientific
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special. Tall tale and historical fiction are just two of the many choices. They both have many properties that are similar and many traits that are diverse‚ shown through the stories “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”‚ by Ambrose Bierce‚ and “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”‚ by Mark Twain. To begin‚ historical fiction and tall tales have many comparable traits. First‚ they both make the reader want to learn more about the topic. Historical fiction sets the story in a real place and
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