Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial <i>Inglourious Basterds</i> 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. <br/><br/>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 <i>Inglourious Basterds</i>.