Pulp Fiction is a perfect example of a postmodern text.

Pulp Fiction (1994) directed by Quentin Tarantino tells the story of

hitmen linked into different stories, portraying a gangster genre,
however Tarantino represents scenes in Pulp Fiction to previous
recognised films allowing a range of genres throughout the film which
attracts a wider audience. The film makes many intertextual
references making it look like a construction. Postmodernism is where
we no longer have any sense of the difference between real things,
images of them, or real experiences and simulations of them.
Representations are re interpreted and played around with through
pastiche and intertextual references. In Pulp Fiction Tarantino has
deliberately exposed the text to be constructed which indicates to the
audience that the piece is not real and it never pretends to be real at
any point, Quentin Tarantino doesn’t try and hide the fact the media
text is constructed, therefore Pulp Fiction could be what is a perfect
example of a postmodern text.
In the armed robbery scene in the breakfast café, Jules quotes from
the Bible which is significant to Robert Mitchum's character quoting
from the Bible in Night Of The Hunter (1955 Charles Laughton.) This
last scene returns to where the film began, showing the audience there
is no linear to Pulp Fiction and to have a bank robbery in the morning
with a hitman like Jules to then quote the bible shows the audience this
would never happen and has been made to look like a construction.
The non linear plot explains the no sense in time. Vincent is shot in
the second situation but then as an audience we seem him again later
on in the film. Pulp Fiction This film breaks conventions and sense of
time, which although at first the audience may not understand, when
they go into depth of the film they can see how well Tarantino has
made it work. The actors in the film, such as John Travolta, Samuel L.
Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer and Bruce Willis may also be a
reason to why Pulp fiction was so successful. These stars aren’t who
people would associate as being in a gangster genre and therefore
attract a wider audience.
Other intertextual references in Pulp Fiction include; Mia's haircut
styled after Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box (1928 G.W. Pabst.) Also the
moment where Butch is waiting at a crossroads in his car has his path
crossed by Marcellus Wallace is a direct reference to the moment in
Psycho (1960 Alfred Hitchcock) when Marion Crane sees her boss walk
in front of her car after fleeing from him, having stolen $40,000. The
scene when Butch chooses his weapon to save Marcellus, all the
weapons are from much older films, the hammer—The Toolbox
Murders (1978,) Baseball bat—Walking Tall (1973) and the Chainsaw—
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974.) This scene is a perfect example
of postmodernism because in that situation nobody would spend that
amount of time choosing a weapon; they would just grab one and run.
Another intertextual reference is When Vincent takes Mia out for dinner
a waitress is dressed as Marilyn Monroe's and she does the famous
blowing white dress action, when the skirt flies up over a subway
grating from the film The Seven Year Itch (1955 Billy Wilder.)
When Butch is in the taxi on his way back to his hotel room after his
fight, the back drop from the car is black and white and as an audience
it looks unrealistic. Baudrillard says that we are living in a word of
“hyperreality” constructed largely of surface media images that
challenges and undermines modernist notions of reality and truth.
Tarantino does just this with his production of Pulp Fiction; he creates
scenes that undermine the reality of the world.
Overall I feel that that Pulp Fiction is a perfect example of
postmodernism because of the references within in the film, media
stereotypes aren’t conformed to and the non linear plot, adds even
more to the postmodernism.