FILM DIRECTORS: TARANTINO AND HIS INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES (FM2082)

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Quentin Tarantino once said, “I steal from every movie I see.” How does his passion for cinema, sampling, cannibalizing, transforming and creating new cinematic approaches raise questions around violence, gender, globalism and cultural performance? Looking at films from Reservoir Dogs to Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the films of influences Woo, Leone, Godard, and others.

Code: 
FM2082
Name: 
FILM DIRECTORS: TARANTINO AND HIS INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES
Discipline: 
FM (Film)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. By the end of the course, students should have watched all of Tarantino’s films, know the main filmmakers that influenced Tarantino and be able to explain their recurring themes, formal innovations, and importance.
  2. Students should also have developed a familiarity with critical theory through the filmmaker’s work as well as be able to articulate Tarantino as a symptom of a specific socio-political context.
  3. Students should also have developed an understanding of the various nuances that make up Tarantino’s complex figure in the history of film

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