Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds - A Manipulation of Metacinema

Zusatztext Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema will be undoubtedly useful to anyone who studies film but also to students of gender studies. Of course, Inglourious Basterds is a complicated film, for which reason no one book can fully analyze it, so there is plenty of room for further scholarship on this tremendous movie. This book is a more than worthy place to start. Informationen zum Autor Robert von Dassanowsky is Professor of German and Film, and Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year (Colorado) at U Colorado, Colorado Springs. Publications include Austrian Cinema: A History ; Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (ed); New Austrian Film (ed. w/ Oliver Speck) and Hofmannsthal's "Der Schwierige" (ed. w/Martin Liebscher). He is also an independent film producer. Klappentext A wide-ranging study of Tarantino's controversial 2009 film, written by a luminous line-up of international scholars and including an extensive interview with the filmmaker. Vorwort A wide-ranging study of Tarantino's controversial 2009 film, written by a luminous line-up of international scholars. Zusammenfassung 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 amoral yokel, Lieutenant Aldo Raine, and the cosmopolitan, but psychopathic Colonel Landa, are understood for their true functions in what has become an iconoclastic pop-culture phenomenon and one of the classics of early twenty-first century American cinema. Additionally, the book examines the use of "foreign" languages (subverting English and image), the allegory of Austria's identity in the war, and the particularly French and German cinematic influences, such as R. W. Fassbinder's realignment of the German woman's film and the iconic image of the German film star in Inglourious Basterds . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Locating Mr. Tarantino or, Who's Afraid of Metacinema? Robert von Dassanowsky 1) The Grand IllousionSrikanth Srinivasan 2) Exploding Cinema, Exploding Hollywood: Inglourious Basterds and the Problems of Cinematic ConventionImke Meyer 3) A Slight Duplication of Efforts: Redundancy and the Excessive Camera in Inglourious Basterds Chris Fujiwara 4) Inglourious Music: Revenge, Reflexivity and Morricone as Muse in Ingloruious Basterds Lisa Coulthard 5) Lulu's Menorah: Seeing and Nazi-ingJustin Vicari 6) Vengeful Violence: Inglourious Basterds , Allohistory, and the Inversion of Victims and PerpetratorsMichael D. Richardson 7) Inglourious Basterds and the Gender of RevengeHeidi Schlipphacke 8) Reels of Justice: Inglourious Basterds, The Sorrow and the Pity and Jewish Revenge Fantasies Eric Kligerman9) 'Fire!' in a Crowded Theater: Liquidating History in Inglourious Basterds Sharon Willis 10) Is Tarantino serious? The Twofold Image of the Auteur and the State of Exception Oliver C. Speck11) Disruptive Violence as Means to Create a Space for Reflection: Thoughts on Tarantino's Attempts at Audience Irritation Alexander D. Ornella 12) Counterfactuals, Quantum Physics and Cruel Monsters in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds William Brown 13) "What shall the history books read?" The Debate over Inglourious Basterds and the Limits of Representation Todd Herzog Notes on Contributors Index...

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• Authors: Robert von Dassanowsky
• Assisted by: Robert von Dassanowsky (Editor), Robert von Dassanowsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2012
• EAN: 9781441138699
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-3869-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV