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Quentin Tarantino [electronic resource] : interviews / edited by Gerald Peary

Author
Tarantino, Quentin
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2013.
Edition
Revised and updated [edition].
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm.)
Additional Creators
Peary, Gerald and Project Muse
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Interview at Cannes / Hubert Niogret -- A Talk with Quentin Tarantino / Gerald Peary -- Interview with Quentin Tarantino / Peter Brunette -- Reservoir Dogs Press Conference Toronto International Film Festival/1992 -- Answers First, Questions Later / Graham Fuller -- Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction / Manohla Dargis -- Interview with Quentin Tarantino / Hubert Niogret -- When You Know You're in Good Hands / Gavin Smith -- Four X Four / Peter Biskind -- Interview: Quentin Tarantino / J. Hoberman -- Out of the Past: Quentin Tarantino--On Ambition, Exploitation, and Playing Psycho / Don Gibalevich -- Quentin Tarantino: Press Conference on Jackie Brown / Peter Keough -- Quentin Tarantino on Adapting Rum Punch, Moving the Story to LA, Elmore Leonard's Opinion / Adrian Wootton -- The Mouth and the Method / Erik Bauer -- Quentin Tarantino Reveals Almost Everything That Inspired Kill Bill / Tomohiro Machiyama -- An Interview with Quentin Tarantino / Jeff Otto -- Total Tarantino / Mary Kaye Schilling -- Tarantino Bites Back / Nick James -- Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds Interview / Kam Williams -- Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview / Ella Taylor -- Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Interview / Mali Elfman -- Pulp and Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History / Terry Gross -- Days of Gloury / Ryan Gilbey -- Tarantino "Unchained": Django Trilogy / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Summary
"Here is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's reputation, from his breakout film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), through Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), his enchanged homages to Asian action cinema, to his rousing tribute to guys-on-a-mission World War II move, Inglourious Basterds (2009). For those who prefer a more mature, contemplative cinema, Tarantino provided the tender, very touching Jackie Brown (1997). A masterpiece? Pulp Fiction (1994). A delightful mash of unabashed exploitation and felt social consciousness? His latest opus, Django Unchained (2012). From the beginning, Tarantino--affable, open, and enthusiastic about sharing his adoration of movies--has been a journalist's dream. Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, revised and updated with twelve new interviews, is a joy to read cover to cover because its subject has so much interesting and provocative to say about his own movies and about cinema in general, and also about his unusual life. He is frank and revealing about growing up in Los Angeles with a single, half-Cherokee mother, and dropping out of ninth grade to take acting classes. Lost and confused, he still managed a gutsy ambition: young Quentin decided to would be a filmmaker. Tarantino has concede that Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), the homicidal African American con man in Jackie Brown, is an autobiographical portrait. "If I hadn't wanted to make movies, I would have ended up as Ordell," Tarantino has explained. "I wouldn't have been a postman or worked at the phone company. . . . I would have gone to jail.""--
"Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's reputation, from his breakout film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), through Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), his enchanted homages to Asian action cinema, to his rousing tribute to guys-on-a-mission World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds (2009). For those who prefer a more mature, contemplative cinema, Tarantino provided the tender, very touching Jackie Brown (1997). A masterpiece--Pulp Fiction (1994). A delightful mash of unabashed exploitation and felt social consciousness--his latest opus, Django Unchained (2012).From the beginning, Tarantino (b. 1963)--affable, open, and enthusiastic about sharing his adoration of movies--has been a journalist's dream. Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, revised and updated with twelve new interviews, is a joy to read cover to cover because its subject has so much interesting and provocative to say about his own movies and about cinema in general, and also about his unusual life. He is frank and revealing about growing up in Los Angeles with a single, half-Cherokee mother, and dropping out of ninth grade to take acting classes. Lost and confused, he still managed a gutsy ambition: young Quentin decided he would be a filmmaker.Tarantino has conceded that Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), the homicidal African American con man in Jackie Brown, is an autobiographical portrait. "If I hadn't wanted to make movies, I would have ended up as Ordell," Tarantino has explained. "I wouldn't have been a postman or worked at the phone company. I would have gone to jail.""--
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ISBN
9781617038747
1621039722
9781621039723
Note
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
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