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Cinema is always evolving and it’s an exciting process to witness, to explore and to understand. A film such as Pulp Fiction is one film that has gone quite some way in transcending its original moment of release and has become something of a landmark in contemporary cinema, contributing significantly to the crime movie genre and to ideas about film authorship and also in terms of issues of representation and the depiction of physical violence in popular culture. As the hashtag now rightly reminds us: #representationmatters. Since its release in 1994, Pulp Fiction has enjoyed a sustained high profile as i) a major popular cultural product, ii) as a film that is well understood as a successful realisation of the crime movie genre and iii) as a film that is the work of a film auteur whose name has taken on the quality of a brand name.
Every film reflects the concerns of its time, and the particular ways of looking at the world within that culture, that society, and that moment in time. To fully understand…
