From Samurai to Shakespeare - Traditions of Revenge in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
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Looking at Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films and the revenge theme from both a cultural and a historical perspective. Discussing the elements of samurai and cowboy-and-Western culture and the influence of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Titus Andronicus and the Greej tragedy Medea.
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Tarantino, Kill Bill, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Medea, revenge, tragedy