Essays on Quentin

How YouTube is Changing the World

McLuhan writes, “Subliminal and docile acceptance of media impact has made them prisons without walls for their human users” (McLuhan 208). Each of us knows that the twenty-first century is the age of information, and that information is the main weapon that influences people’s minds and opinions. Indeed, the news we are able to watch on TV is told from the perspective the government need us to know it, and this perspective is not always true. YouTube allows every user to upload and watch videos free. It provides a lot of opinions and lets people escape from the ...

Introduction

The world of art has always been driven by an immortal tradition where the sole artist worked as the creative force and his relationship with the art was way more influential than the traditional author-art relation. In the case of films, the concept of the ‘Auteur’ explains one of the most significant styles of cinematic direction in which the director becomes too dominant over the entire film that he is being ranked as the author for the film. Some directors in the world cinema are reckoned to have such a strong authorial presence in their films that is very ...

In Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction, we bear witness to an ensemble cast of unsavory characters who inhabit the underbelly of a fictional Los Angeles, including a pair of hitmen, a gangster and his wife, two lowly robbers, and a boxer who is on the lam. The title of the film is derived from the genre of dime-store crime novels that are the type of story Tarantino is paying homage to – tales of crime, sex and money, all uniquely stylized in their own way. Tarantino created his own sense of language in this film to help portray the low-income, criminal nature ...