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PoMO - Coggle Diagram

- - - - STRINATI: Yes – style over substance. Yes – significant self referential film
      - literate intertextuality. Yes – bricolage/pastiche of genre and non linear narrative
      - BAUDRILLARD Yes – copies of copies e.g. Jack Rabbit Slims’ cultural and
      - historical eclecticism e.g. Buddy waiter
      - See also Marilyn Monroe dress blowing, itself a copy of a copy (Fox organised
      - publicity stunt). Monroe ‘accidentally’ steps over a subway grate in her white
      - dress while filming. Billy Wilder as Director re-films the sequence in The Seven
      - Year Itch, 1954: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIh6HDeXKGY
      - LYOTARD – non linear chapters with a lack of meta narrative: “Pulp
      - Fiction is about nothing, says nothing and makes you feel nothing”:
      - New Statesman
      - STRINATI - Blurred boundaries of high and low culture
      - Foregrounding of consumerism and brands (see burger scene):
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnb_3ibUp38
      - Tarantino clearly takes thematic inspiration from 1940s film noir with Uma Thurman's character playing the role of the seductive female lead while Travolta plays the witty yet masculine male lead.
      - In terms of the colours used, 1970s Kung fu can also be seen as an inspiration with the use of a bright and harsh lens.
      - Pulp Fiction is listed as a 'Dark Comedy' however when this scene is isolated it would be easy to assume that this would be a simple first date scene as seen in many romantic comedies (considering how the dialogue does very little in truly progressing the plot).