TARANTINO FILM AND POSTMODERNISM

Abstract

Popular American Film, which reached its peak in the 1980s, declined in terms of quality in the following years. In the 1990s, American Film Industry has managed to survive thanks to blockbusters such as “Terminator II”, “Titanic” (D: James Cameron) and to the works of extraordinary directors such as David Fincher, David Lynch, Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino. The works of these artists, who created a different understanding in Popular Cinema were also a part of Art Films even they reach a wider audience. The films of Quentin Tarantino, who were active in this alternative understanding and created his own audience, were at the pinnacle of this new cinema. The film “True Romance” written by Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott is a prototype of Tarantino Cinema filmed with a simpler budget. This was followed by “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” which earned him worldwide success. Quentin Tarantino has made progress in every film he has made, compared to his previous one. His film can be reviewed for the Postmodernist elements it contains as well as for thecontaint of those works. In our study, we first investigate the Cinema Environment of the 1990s, which created the conditions for the emergence of Tarantino Film, and then the birth of Postmodernism in Arts. In the chapter that forms the basis of our study, we examine Postmodernism in Tarantino Cinema with examples from his films.