Pulp Fiction was a film that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of director Quentin Tarantinos's stand-out movies. Tarantino's style-violent, fast, funny and full knowing pop culture references-epitomises 90s post-modernism. Pulp Fiction was a phenomental cult success and one of the first film to generate hot debate in internet chatrooms and on fan website. Dana Polan's compelling analysis sets out to uncover the style and technique of Pulp Fiction. He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyses the film's narrative accomplishment and complexity. Where some critics dismissed Pulp Fiction for its violence an its workship of a certain brand of cool, Polan shows how the film exemplifies new kinds of engagement with cultural and social codes, such as those around racial identity. In addition, Poland argues that the film's celebration of macho attitudes is more nuanced than might first appear. In this afterword to this new edition, Poland looks back on Pulp Fiction thirty after its first release, considering it in the context of Tarantino's subsequent film-making.