Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds A Manipulation of Metacinema

by Von Dassanowsky, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781441138699
• ISBN10: 1441138692
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversialInglourious Basterdsin 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 inInglourious Basterds.

Table of Contents

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 BasterdsChris 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 Kligerman

9) ‘Fire!' in a Crowded Theater: Liquidating History in Inglourious BasterdsSharon Willis

10) Is Tarantino serious? The Twofold Image of the Auteur and the State of Exception Oliver C. Speck

11) 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 BasterdsWilliam Brown

13) "What shall the history books read?" The Debate over Inglourious Basterds and the Limits of Representation Todd Herzog

Notes on Contributors

Index