Dear all, I’m very happy to announce the publication of Roche, David. Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 2018. 352p. ISBN 978-1496819161 http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2172 <http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2172> Warm regards, David Roche David Roche, Professor of Film Studies / professeur d’études cinématographiques Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France (office LA257) DEMA / CAS (EA 801) President of SERCIA (Société d’Études et de Recherches sur le CInéma Anglophone) www.sercia.net http://cas.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil-cas/pratique/membres/roche-david-289381.kjsp?RH=1370266407978 http://univ-tlse2.academia.edu/DavidRoche CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 CHAPTER ONE “What Shall the History Books Read?” History and Film History 15 CHAPTER TWO “Black Man, White Hell” Identity Politics Vol. 1: Race and Ethnicity 32 CHAPTER THREE “ at’s the Excuse You Guys Use Whenever You Want to Exclude Me from Something” Identity Politics Vol. 2: Gender (and Sexuality) 75 CHAPTER FOUR “Revenge Is Never a Straight Line” A Neoformalist Approach Vol. 1: Narrative Structures and Paradigms 127 CHAPTER FIVE “Everything’s the Same Except for One Change” A Neoformalist Approach Vol. 2: Narration and Style 160 CHAPTER SIX “Lookin’ Back on the Track, Gonna Do It My Way” e Use of Preexisting Music 224 vi Contents CHAPTER SEVEN “Come On, Let’s Get into Character” Acting and eatricality 244 CHAPTER EIGHT “He’s Just Not Used to Seein’ a Man Ripped Apart by Dogs Is All” Violence and Spectacle 270 Conclusion 288 Notes 293 Filmography and Bibliography 319 Index 332 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------