Pulp Fiction, Postmodernism

In our theory lessons we have been studying Pulp Fiction, and the elements of it that are post modern. Here are some examples...
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Mia Wallace draws a rectangle with her fingers in the air, a white rectangle physically appears on screen











- Deliberately bad backdrops when characters are in cars, here when Butch runs away after his fight he gets into a 1940's taxi and the outside of the car appears to be black and white

- Mia Wallace has the same hair cut as Louise Brookes in Pandora's Box (1928), at the time she had this short bob style it was seen as adventurous

- Reference to Psycho (1960, Hitchcock) when Butch is in his car waiting at the cross roads and has his path crossed by Marcellus Wallace his boss. In psycho the same happens to Marion Crane and her boss.

- The scene in the restaurant 'Jack Rabbit Slims' showing lots of famous people from popular culture such as Buddy Holly, Maralyn Monroe, James Dean and Elvis - all of these died at young ages

Also, while Vincent and Mia are eating dinner the waitress dressed as Monroe stands on top of a fan, this blows her skirt up as in the film The Seven Year Itch..