In the Brookers ' analysis , " Through Vince ... we see the contemporary world as utterly contingent , transformed , disastrously , in the instant you are not looking . " Fraiman finds it particularly significant that Vincent is reading '' Modesty Blaise '' in two of these instances . She links this fact with the traditional derisive view of women as " the archetypal consumers of pulp " : Locating popular fiction in the bathroom , Tarantino reinforces its association with shit , already suggested by the dictionary meanings of " pulp " that preface the movie : moist , shapeless matter ; also , lurid stories on cheap paper . What we have then is a series of damaging associations – pulp , women , shit – that taint not only male producers of mass-market fiction but also male consumers . Perched on the toilet with his book , Vincent is feminized by sitting instead of standing as well as by his trashy tastes ; preoccupied by the anal , he is implicitly infantilized and homosexualized ; and the seemingly inevitable result is being pulverized by Butch with a Czech M61 submachine gun . That this fate has to do with Vincent 's reading habits is strongly suggested by a slow tilt from the book on the floor directly up to the corpse spilled into the tub . Willis reads '' Pulp Fiction '' in almost precisely the opposite direction , finding " its overarching project as a drive to turn shit into gold . This is one way of describing the project of redeeming and recycling popular culture , especially the popular culture of one 's childhood , as is Tarantino 's wont as well as his stated aim . " Despite that , argues Fraiman , " '' Pulp Fiction '' demonstrates ... that even an open pulpophile like Tarantino may continue to feel anxious and emasculated by his preferences . " '' Pulp Fiction '' won eight major awards from a total of twenty-six nominations , including a Best Original Screenplay win at the 67th Academy Awards . Also , in the balloting by the National Society of Film Critics , Samuel L. Jackson was the runner-up in both the Best Actor and the Best Supporting Actor categories
67th Academy Awards
67th Academy Awards
Pulp Fiction