----------------------------Original message---------------------------- To D Hunter: I read a review of Pulp Fiction which compared it to the British Merchant-Ivory productions (A Room with a View, Howard's End etc) in the sense that it was really a period piece celebrating the era of pulp magazines in the 1930s. But there is also a nostalgia for film and television characters and genres from the 1970s. That is why film buffs like QT so much: he refers nostalgically to their beloved past. People faced with a difficult and uncertain present, not to mention a bleak future will always rely on the past certainties of childhood, a safe place where nothing can change. Of course, as with Merchant-Ivory in Britain, this is a thoroughly reactionary instinct. J.J.Jacobs Department of Film and Television Studies University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7Al