Pulp Fiction

The author is Dr. Alan A. Stone who is the Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University. He has talked about the violence and other plot angles of the movie that affect us psychologically. The article talks about the view that movies like Pulp Fiction are thought to be promoting violence by arguing that the movie is not just about violence but has a plot structure of its own. Basically, Tarantino's movies have much more deeper meaning than what is being perceived by many people.

This below quote is one of the most important quotes in the article. It gives us an idea as to how this name of "Pulp Fiction" might have come about;

"The title "Pulp Fiction" refers, of course, to the pop literary genre of the hard-nosed private investigator, which peaked in the 1930s and 1940s with the work of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain. Newsstands of their era bulged with monthly pulp fiction magazines that vied for the reader's attention with stories that began luridly on the cover and jumped to the back. Tarantino echoes this structure in his film, which opens with one short story, then breaks to two others."

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