Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema (Hardcover)

0. Introduction: A Southern State of Exception Oliver C. Speck, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Part I. Cultural Roots and Intertexts: Germany, France, US 20 1. Dr. 'King' Schultz as Ideologue and Emblem: The German Enlightenment and the Legacy of the 1848 Revolutions in Django Unchained Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA 2. Franco-faux-ne : Django's jive Margaret Ozierski, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA 3. Of Handshakes and Dragons: Django's German Cousins Dana Weber, Florida State University, USA 4. Django and Lincoln: The Suffering Slave and the Law of Slavery Gregory L. Kaster, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA Part II. Philosophy Unchained: Ethics, Body Space and Evil 5. Bodies in and out of Place: Django Unchained and Body-Spaces Alexander D. Ornella, University of Hull, UK 6. The "D" is Silent, but Human Rights Are Not: Django Unchained as Human Rights Discourse Kate E. Temoney, Florida State University, USA 7. Hark, Hark, the (dis)Enchanted Kantian Or: Tarantino's 'Evil' and its Anti-Cathartic Resonance Dara Waldron, Limerick Institute of Technology, UK 8. Value and Violence in Django Unchained William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK Part III. Questions of Race and Representation: What is a "Black Film"? 9. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film": "What does it mean to be a black film in twenty-first century America?" Heather Ashley Hayes, Whitman College, USA, and Gilbert B. Rodman, University of Minnesota, USA 10. Chained To It: The Recurrence of the Frontier Hero in the Films of Quentin Tarantino Samuel P. Perry 11. "Crowdsourcing" "The Bad-Ass Slave": A critique of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained Reynaldo Anderson, Harris-Stowe State University, USA, D.L. Stephenson, Western Connecticut State University, USA and Chante Anderson, Texas Southern University, USA 12. Guess Who's Coming to Get Her: Stereotypes, Mythification, and White Redemption Ryan J. Weaver and Nichole K. Kathol, University of Wisconsin-Barron County, USA 13. Django Blues: Whiteness and Hollywood's continued failures David J. Leonard, Washington State University, USA Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index