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Title:
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Understanding Quentin Tarantino through the lens of Westerns: Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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Creator:
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Zhang, Chenrui
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Subject:
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Film and Television
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Film and Television
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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"Quentin Tarantino's work is of true delicacy. Every seemingly banal detail has the potential to contain multitudes. The paper interprets three of Tarantino's work through the lens of Western movies. Based on the analysis of traditional Western films and their sub-genres, such as neo-Western and revisionist Western, the paper proposes that the story of such films does not necessarily need to occur before the American Civil War, during the so-called 'cow-boy period.' Western movies do not have to be set in the wild west. The paper presents a novel interpretation of Quentin Tarantino's three eminent films, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, these films are not traditionally considered to be Westerns, but through analysis of these films' content and by referencing the elements of Western film, it is evident that these Tarantino productions belong to the genre. These elements include the cinematography components of classic Western films, used by Tarantino in the three aforementioned films, the use of classic Western character tropes, such as the partners that often appear in classic Westerns, the setting in which the story takes place in the environment: all of these elements come together to make the case that Quentin Tarantino’s entries into the Western genre are not just Hateful Eight and Django Unchained." -- Abstract
Keywords: Neo Western, revisionist Western, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Kill Bill
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta)
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Date:
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2021-11
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Format:
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2 online resources: 1 PDF (Thesis, 27 pages) + 1 mp4 film (Studio component, approximately 16 min., sound, color)
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