Episode 203 – Kill Bill

Uma Thurman with a sword! Lucy Liu with a sword! An extended homage to every martial arts film you have seen and also a bunch you haven’t! We’re dissecting Kill Bill, discussing Quentin Tarantino’s approach to filmmaking, “movie movies,” and, naturally, how the “woman with a sword” genre fits into feminism.

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

• The Decay of Cinema by Susan Sontag
• Revenge and the Family Romance in Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” by Lesel Dawson
• A piece on Tarantino by bell hooks
• Volumes of Transnational Vengeance: Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill by Ruby C. Tapia
• Found: where Tarantino gets his ideas by Steve Rose
• Love in the Time of Transcultural Fusion: Cinephilia, Homage and Kill Bill by Jenna Ng
• Vengeance is theirs by Manohla Dargis
• “Revenge is Never a Straight Line”: Transgressing Heroic Boundaries: Medea and the (Fe)Male Body in “Kill Bill” by Ian Reilly
• Laureljupiter on Joss Whedon
• Kill Bill’s The Bride: A Feminist Hero? by The Take
• This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry by Maureen Dowd
• Quentin Tarantino Responds to Uma Thurman as Polanski Comments Resurface by Jonah Engel Bromwich

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