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Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained : the continuation of metacinema / edited by Oliver C. Speck.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2014.Description: vi, 322 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781628926606 (paperback)
  • 1628926600 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Django unchained
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 TAR
Contents:
Introduction : A southern state of exception / Oliver C. Speck -- Part 1: Cultural roots and intertexts : Germany, France, and the United States. Dr. King Schultz as ideologue and emblem : the German Enlightenment and the legacy of the 1848 revolutions in Django Unchained / Robert von Dassanowsky ; Franco-faux-ne : Django's jive / Margaret Ozierski ; Of handshakes and dragons : Django\'s German cousins / Dana Weber ; Django and Lincoln : the suffering slave and the law of slavery / Gregory L. Kaster -- Part 2: Philosophy unchained : ethics, body space, and evil. Bodies in and out of place : Django Unchained and body spaces / Alexander D. Ornella ; The D is silent, but human rights are not : Django unchained as human rights discourse / Kate E. Temoney ; Hark, hark, the (dis)enchanted Kantian, or Tarantino\'s Evil and its anti-cathartic resonance / Dara Waldron ; Value and violence in Django unchained / William Brown -- Part 3: Questions of race and representation : What is a Black film? Thirteen ways of looking at a Black film : What does it mean to be a Black film in twenty-first century America? / Heather Ashley Hayes and Gilbert B. Rodman ; Chained to it : the recurrence of the frontier hero in the films of Quentin Tarantino / Samuel P. Perry ; Crowdsourcing The Bad-Ass Slave : a critique of Quentin Tarantino\'s Django unchained / Reynaldo Anderson, D.L. Stephenson, and Chante Anderson ; Guess who\'s coming to get her : stereotypes, mythification, and white redemption / Ryan J. Weaver and Nichole K. Kathol ; Django blues : whiteness and Hollywood\'s continued failures / David J. Leonard.
Summary: Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino\'s most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American writers have defended the white auteur. The use of extremely graphic violence in the film, even by Tarantino\'s standards, at a time when gun control is being hotly debated, has sparked further controversy and has led to angry outbursts by the director himself. Moreover, Django Unchained has become a popular culture phenomenon, with t-shirts, highly contentious action figures, posters, and strong DVD/BluRay sales. The topic (slavery and revenge), the setting (a few years before the Civil War), the intentionally provocative generic roots (Spaghetti Western and Blaxploitation) and the many intertexts and references (to German and French culture) demand a thorough examination. Befitting such a complex film, the essays collected here represent a diverse group of scholars who examine Django Unchained from many perspectives-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American writers have defended the white auteur. The use of extremely graphic violence in the film, even by Tarantino's standards, at a time when gun control is being hotly debated, has sparked further controversy and has led to angry outbursts by the director himself. Moreover, Django Unchained has become a popular culture phenomenon, with t-shirts, highly contentious action figures, posters, and strong DVD/BluRay sales. The topic (slavery and revenge), the setting (a few years before the Civil War), the intentionally provocative generic roots (Spaghetti Western and Blaxploitation) and the many intertexts and references (to German and French culture) demand a thorough examination. Befitting such a complex film, the essays collected here represent a diverse group of scholars who examine Django Unchained from many perspectives.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : A southern state of exception / Oliver C. Speck -- Part 1: Cultural roots and intertexts : Germany, France, and the United States. Dr. King Schultz as ideologue and emblem : the German Enlightenment and the legacy of the 1848 revolutions in Django Unchained / Robert von Dassanowsky ; Franco-faux-ne : Django's jive / Margaret Ozierski ; Of handshakes and dragons : Django\'s German cousins / Dana Weber ; Django and Lincoln : the suffering slave and the law of slavery / Gregory L. Kaster -- Part 2: Philosophy unchained : ethics, body space, and evil. Bodies in and out of place : Django Unchained and body spaces / Alexander D. Ornella ; The D is silent, but human rights are not : Django unchained as human rights discourse / Kate E. Temoney ; Hark, hark, the (dis)enchanted Kantian, or Tarantino\'s Evil and its anti-cathartic resonance / Dara Waldron ; Value and violence in Django unchained / William Brown -- Part 3: Questions of race and representation : What is a Black film? Thirteen ways of looking at a Black film : What does it mean to be a Black film in twenty-first century America? / Heather Ashley Hayes and Gilbert B. Rodman ; Chained to it : the recurrence of the frontier hero in the films of Quentin Tarantino / Samuel P. Perry ; Crowdsourcing The Bad-Ass Slave : a critique of Quentin Tarantino\'s Django unchained / Reynaldo Anderson, D.L. Stephenson, and Chante Anderson ; Guess who\'s coming to get her : stereotypes, mythification, and white redemption / Ryan J. Weaver and Nichole K. Kathol ; Django blues : whiteness and Hollywood\'s continued failures / David J. Leonard.

Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino\'s most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American writers have defended the white auteur. The use of extremely graphic violence in the film, even by Tarantino\'s standards, at a time when gun control is being hotly debated, has sparked further controversy and has led to angry outbursts by the director himself. Moreover, Django Unchained has become a popular culture phenomenon, with t-shirts, highly contentious action figures, posters, and strong DVD/BluRay sales. The topic (slavery and revenge), the setting (a few years before the Civil War), the intentionally provocative generic roots (Spaghetti Western and Blaxploitation) and the many intertexts and references (to German and French culture) demand a thorough examination. Befitting such a complex film, the essays collected here represent a diverse group of scholars who examine Django Unchained from many perspectives-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: A Southern State of Exception
  • Part I Cultural Roots: Germany and France
  • 1 "Dr. 'King' Schultz as Ideologue and Emblem: The German Enlightenment and the Legacy of the 1848 Revolutions in Django Unchained"
  • 2 Franco-faux-ne : Django's jive
  • Part II Intertextual Links: Wagner, Niebelungen, Lincoln
  • 3 "Tarantino Unchained, Or a Perfect Wagnerite?"
  • 4 Of Hand-Shakes and Dragons: Django's German Cousins
  • 5 The Complementary Django and Lincoln
  • Part III Philosophy Unchained: Ethics, Body Space and Evil
  • 6 Bodies in and out of Place: Tarantino's Django Unchained and Body-Spaces
  • 7 The Reel Representation of the Real: Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained as Human Rights Discourse
  • 8 Hark, Hark, the (dis)Enchanted Kantian Or: Tarantino's 'Evil' and its Anti-Cathartic Resonance
  • Part IV Violence and Gender: the Value of Shackles, or Breaking Boundaries
  • 9 Value and Violence in Django Unchained
  • 10 "Blasting Boundaries: Gender, Genre, and Sadism in Django Unchained"
  • 11 "'Someday my prince will come': Rescue Missions and Black Female Embodiment in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained"
  • Part V Questions of Race and Representation: What is a "Black Film"?
  • 12 "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film": "What does it mean to be a black film in twenty-first century America?"
  • 13 Django Blues: Whiteness and Hollywood's continued failures
  • 14 Appendix: Interview with Quentin Tarantino
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Oliver C. Speck is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. His scholarly writing focuses on the representation of memory and history in French, German and other European cinema.

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