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Title

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious basterds : a manipulation of metacinema / edited by Robert von Dassanowsky.

Publication

New York : Continuum, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Dassanowsky, Robert
• Dassanowsky, Robert.

Description

xxiii, 307 p.; 22 cm.

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.

Alternative Title

• Inglourious basterds
• Inglorious bastards

Subject

Inglourious basterds (Motion picture)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781441138217 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1441138218 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781441138699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1441138692 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011051721

OCLC

• 731923998
• SCSB-11264964

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library