1. 00:36Hollywood scores steer audiences toward one emotion; Kill Bill instead borrows, transforms, and collages music like a curator.

2. 01:32RZA and Tarantino quiz each other with obscure kung fu films and discover a shared musical language.

3. 03:34The alarm as Vernita opens the door signals both justice arriving and danger approaching.

4. 06:05The same Battle Without Honor or Humanity expresses confusion at a gangster funeral but becomes cool and comic at the House of Blue Leaves.

5. 08:28What are diegetic and nondiegetic sounds, and why does Tarantino make us ask where music originates?

6. 09:29Elle whistles on her way to kill the Bride: how a performed melody becomes an advancing film score.

7. 12:20As The Grand Duel sounds, Bill’s flute fades in and out and fate’s funeral music begins.

8. 14:29How the bittersweet Bang Bang expresses both the massacre’s cruelty and the Bride’s shattered innocence.

9. 15:54Pairing the saccharine Lonely Goatherd with sword-making is neither parody nor sanctification.

10. 18:03A sound-action transition: Sophie steps on the brake and switches the music off.

11. 19:09Tarantino no longer uses images to reflect reality; he lives and breathes inside cinema.

12. 22:17‘Only Coca-Cola, no Marx’: do his films offer consumption and entertainment without social critique?

13. 26:39From cinematheques and videotapes to pirated DVDs: cinephilia needs distance, scarcity, and resistance to access.

14. 29:27If Tarantino’s characters have no inner soul, are they necessarily shallow?