Female Body and the Abjection Senses: The heritage of exploitation’s heroines in Quentin Tarantino
Keywords:
Female characters, Exploitation, Postfeminism.Abstract
This article aims to discuss the conditions in which body and mind are being exploited as fundamental components to understand Quentin Tarantino’s female characters. Departing from movies such as Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003/2004), Death Proof (2007) and The Hatefull Eight (2015), this analysis goes through Julia Kristeva’s questionings on abjection and identitary formations relegated to female body (1982), possibly mixed with the recognizable heritage from exploitation’s heroines. While establishing contradictions through postmodern parody, the ephemeral character of representations assumes a complex nature which directly dialogues with the prerrogatives presented by postfeminism itself.References
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