Pulp Fiction as a postmodern film

Postmodernism - where reality is replaced with artifice


Visual - Taxi scene, stylised violence and the casual attitude to crime, retro-references to the 50s

Thematic elements - Advertising speech e.g jules talking about the burger, coffee and Vincent with milkshakes
Artificial product placement e.g Red Apple cigarettes, Jack Rabbit slims restaurant

character -  Corny and cartoony characters - Mr Wolf, Jules and Vincent, Mia




Tarantino signature auteur features ;

Narrative - non chronological narrative,

Lack of closure - ambiguity, left to ask questions e.g. whats in the case, what happens to Jules.


ethnicity and gender in Pulp Fiction ;

Language use - racial slurs and racist language
Black people are more violent in this
represented as equal with black leadership e.g Jules and Vincent, there is a black boss - Marsellus
gender - male dominated compared to female
females are portrayed as weaker