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Tarantino, Quentin (1963—)
Best known for writing and directing the Oscar winning film Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino is one of the most critically lauded film directors of the 1990s. I...
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Writer and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's career "was a Hollywood dream story," according to Daniel Fierman in Entertainment Weekly: "a young video clerk from rough-and-tumble beginnings who wrote and ...
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In the following essay, Wild discusses Tarantino's films, career, and artistic influences.
Quentin Tarantino, madman of movie mayhem, has a mother. How's that for a shocker? She has seen...
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In the following essay, Cooper discusses the appeal of Tarantino's dialogue and cinematic presentation.
There should be a dozen youngish American filmmakers as inspired as Quentin Tarantino. Th...
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In the following essay. Indiana discusses the depiction of black experience, violence, and masculinity in Tarantino's films.
Like O.J. Simpson and Newt Gingrich, Quentin Tarantino has become on...
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In the following essay, Bush examines the persona of violent male characters in Tarantino's films, especially as derived from earlier crime genre films and performances by Marlon Brando.
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In the following interview, Tarantino discusses his films and the Hollywood movie industry.
Quentin Tarantino, in shorts and a T-shirt, is padding around his palatial mansion in the Hollywood Hills on...
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Tarantino, Quentin (1963—)
Quentin Tarantino
Critical Essay by David Wild
