Table of contents : Acknowledgements......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 WHY WRITING A BOOK ON TARANTINO IS THE HARDEST BOOK OF ALL ......Page 9 Influences On Tarantino......Page 20 The State Of The Movie Industry When Tarantino Emerged ......Page 23 Tarantino’s Early Life......Page 24 2. Dog Days......Page 34 Reservoir Dogs (1992)......Page 39 3. Pulp Fame......Page 54 True Romance (1993)......Page 58 Natural Born Killers (1994)......Page 66 4. Pulp Explosion......Page 74 Pulp Fiction Facts......Page 75 Pulp Fiction (1994)......Page 79 The Tarantino Book Industry......Page 93 What’s A Tarantino When He’s Not Writing And Directing? ......Page 96 Major Works......Page 99 The Man From Hollywood from Four Rooms (1995)......Page 101 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)......Page 105 6.The Wilderness Years......Page 113 Jackie Brown (1997)......Page 115 7. Pulp Exhaustion......Page 125 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)......Page 129 Tarantinoesque......Page 139 Magpieism......Page 143 Sticks And Stallones: The Violence Issue......Page 145 Future Films......Page 150 Tarantino’s Status......Page 152 Selected Interviews With Or About Quentin Tarantino ......Page 155 Books About Quentin Tarantino......Page 156 Tarantino Screenplays In Print......Page 157 Other References......Page 158