Quentin Tarantino: Black Tie, White Noise

by Jeff Dawson

214 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Jeff Dawson is a journalist, author and scriptwriter. Amongst other things, he pens Real Dictators, the award-winning historical podcast (200m downloads) that goes out on Spotify, Apple, BBC Sounds and elsewhere.

He was, for many years, a feature writer for The Sunday Times' Culture section (interviewees including Robert De Niro, George Clooney, Dustin Hoffman, Hugh Grant, Angelina Jolie, Jerry Seinfeld and Nicole Kidman). Before that he was the US Editor of Empire magazine.
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Jeff is the author of three non-fiction books — Tarantino/Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool (Cassell/Applause, 1995), Back Home: England And The 1970 World Cup (Orion, 2001), which The Times rated "Truly outstanding", and Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005), the latter nominated for the Mountbatten Maritime Prize.

Historical thriller No Ordinary Killing (2017), an Amazon/Kindle bestseller, was his debut novel. The follow-ups, The Cold North Sea (2018) and Hell Gate (2020), continue the adventures of Captain Ingo Finch.

Reviews

[David Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fairly interesting look at the 1st half of the famous director's career. Up to the point of this book, he had authored Trie Romance, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. These films are covered from pre-production through to publicity/awards. Many little anecdotes and quotes from the key players offer a more revealing look at these generation defining films. Tarantino's impact on culture was unmatched and this book delves into some of this.