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“Crowdsourcing” “The Bad-Ass Slave”: A Critique of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Reynaldo Anderson

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Reynaldo Anderson

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D. L. Stephenson

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Chante Anderson

Chante Anderson

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Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained : The Continuation of Metacinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The philosophy of Franz Fanon articulated in his books The Wretched of the Earth (1963), the bible of the Black Revolution, and Black Skin, White Masks (1967) reached its apogee during the turbulent decade of the 1960s. Fanon theorized...

Bridging Commerce and Classification through the American Art Film: The Case of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Justin Wyatt

Justin Wyatt

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The Hollywood Renaissance : Revisiting American Cinema’s Most Celebrated Era

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Nominated for thirteen Academy Awards (one in every eligible category), Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) recalls the days when box office revenue and critical acclaim matched more often than...

Migration and contemporary Indian cinema: A consideration of Anurag Kashyap and la politique des auteurs in the times of globalization

Kaushik Bhaumik

Kaushik Bhaumik

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The Global Auteur : The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...This chapter will examine the career of Anurag Kashyap, a leading film director of contemporary Indian cinema. Kashyap is one of the few in a new generation of directors to have been hailed specifically as an auteur in Indian film critical...

Counterfactuals, quantum physics, and cruel monsters in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

William Brown

William Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the author of Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age (2013), Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe (2010), with Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin, and co-editor, with David Martin-Jones, of Deleuze and Film (2012). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds : A Manipulation of Metacinema

Continuum, 2012

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...Inglourious Basterds (2009) shows us history as it wasn’t. The titular Basterds are a bunch of predominantly American Jews dropped into occupied France, where it is their business to kill Nazis. They discover that a Parisian cinema...

Body Genres I: Melodramatic Holocaust Films

Aaron Kerner

Aaron Kerner is an Associate Professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Film and the Holocaust : New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films

Continuum, 2011

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...Introduction This chapter and the two following it are informed by Linda Williams’s concept of the “body genres,” films that provoke a visceral response in the spectator. Williams identifies melodrama, horror, and pornography...

Body Genres II: Pornography and Exploitation

Aaron Kerner

Aaron Kerner is an Associate Professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Film and the Holocaust : New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films

Continuum, 2011

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...Introduction: Sexual Theater Susan Sontag describes a strange underworld fascinated with Nazi iconography in her essay, “Fascinating Fascism.” She attributes the fetishistic eroticization to power relations, where the SS exercises “total...

Space and time in the land of the end of history

Marco Grosoli

Marco Grosoli

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The Global Auteur : The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...As of 2015, the stupendous output of Filipino director Lavrente Diaz totaled over fifty hours of film. To dissect such an overwhelming body of work would require more than these few pages, and in fact, might not even fit the scope...

“A slight duplication of efforts”: redundancy and the excessive camera in Inglourious Basterds

Chris Fujiwara

Chris Fujiwara

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Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds : A Manipulation of Metacinema

Continuum, 2012

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...At the end of the opening credits, a white-on-black title appears: Chapter One/Once upon a time … /in Nazi-occupied France. It is the first of five titles that divide Inglourious Basterds into chapters. After the title, the first shot...

“Black in white”: Language, world-making and the American contract in the cinema of Quentin Tarantino

John Pitseys

John Pitseys

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The Global Auteur : The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Quentin Tarantino’s cinema is a cinema of words and transactions. Speech is often literally mise-en-scène in his films, as in the fabled dialogues of Pulp Fiction (1994). It is sometimes doubled by camera placement, movements, and editing...

The “D” Is Silent, but Human Rights Are Not: Django Unchained as Human Rights Discourse

Kate E. Temoney

Kate E. Temoney

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Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained : The Continuation of Metacinema

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Life, liberty, and the pursuit of vengeanceWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit...