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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN-13
9781441138699
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114896837
Product Key Features
Author
Robert Von Dassanowsky
Publication Name
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: a Manipulation of Metacinema
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Item Weight
474g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Robert Von Dassanowsky
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