... Australia, Oxford University Press (2002). Dowell, Pat. Pulp Friction (2). Cineaste, July 1995, Vol. 21, no 3, pp 4-6 URL: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9508246281&db=f5h Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino is a story about four different stories. Tarantino intertextually refers to other movies and aspects of historical society, so much so that Pulp Fiction has been referred to as not a movie but movies.1 He employs many generic narrative structures and proceeds to subvert them, not only in isolation but with one another as well. In doing this Pulp Fiction becomes a self-referential, post-modernist text using existing conventions to make a reflective comment about the society we live in today. In this essay I will analyse the Jack Rabbit Slims sequence as an example of and reference to the intertextuality that Tarantino makes use of in his film. I will also discuss the way in which Tarantino has subverted genres in this film and finally, ...

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