| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 307 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Locating Mr. Tarantino or, who's afraid of metacinema? / Robert von Dassanowsky -- The grand illousion / Srikanth Srinivasan -- Exploding cinema, exploding Hollywood: Inglourious Basterds and the problems of cinematic convention / Imke Meyer -- A slight duplication of efforts: redundancy and the excessive camera in Inglourious Basterds / Chris Fujiwara -- Inglourious Music: revenge, reflexivity and Morricone as muse in Inglourious Basterds / Lisa Coulthard -- Lulu's Menorah: seeing and Nazi-ing / Justin Vicari -- Vengeful violence: Inglourious Basterds, allohistory, and the inversion of victims and perpetrators / Michael D. Richardson -- Inglourious Basterds and the gender of revenge / Heidi Schlipphacke -- Reels of justice: Inglourious Basterds, the sorrow and the pity and Jewish revenge fantasies / Eric Kligerman -- "Fire!" in a crowded theater: liquidating history in Inglorious Basterds / Sharon Willis -- Is Tarantino serious? The twofold image of the auteur and the state of exception / Oliver C. Speck -- Disruptive Violence as means to create a space for reflection: thoughts on Tarantino's attempts at audience irritation / Alexander D. Ornella -- Counterfactuals, quantum physics and cruel monsters in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds / William Brown -- "What shall the history books read?" the debate over Inglourious Basterdsand the limits of representation / Todd Herzog |
| Summary |
This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies. The film and its ideology is dissected by a range of scholars and writers who take on the director's manipulation of metacinema, Nazisploitation, ethnic stereotyping, gender roles, allohistoricism, geopolitics, philosophy, language, and memory. In this collection, the eroticism of the club-swinging and avenging Bear Jew, the dashed heroism of the role-playing French and German females, the patriotic fools and pawns, the amora |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Proquest, viewed January 5, 2023) |
| SUBJECT |
Inglourious basterds (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010039175
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Inglourious basterds (Motion picture) fast |
| Subject |
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Films, cinema.
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Individual film directors, film-makers.
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European history.
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Film history, theory & criticism.
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Performing Arts.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dassanowsky, Robert, author.
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| ISBN |
9781441178534 |
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1441178538 |
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9781628928907 |
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1628928905 |
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9781282133365 |
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1282133365 |
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9781441115478 |
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1441115471 |
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