03394nam 2200577 450 991081895570332120230807213604.00-292-77237-810.7560/768147(CKB)3710000000356159(EBL)3571916(SSID)ssj0001471578(PQKBManifestationID)11933699(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001471578(PQKBWorkID)11423808(PQKB)11327703(MiAaPQ)EBC3571916(Au-PeEL)EBL3571916(CaPaEBR)ebr11022822(OCoLC)903584688(DE-B1597)586925(OCoLC)1280944402(DE-B1597)9780292772373(EXLCZ)99371000000035615920150306h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace on the QT blackness and the films of Quentin Tarantino /Adilifu NamaFirst edition.Austin, Texas :University of Texas Press,2015.©20151 online resource (182 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-292-76814-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Reservoir Dogs and True Romance""; ""2. Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown""; ""3. Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, and Death Proof""; ""Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained""; ""Coda""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""Known for their violence and prolific profanity, including free use of the n-word, the films of Quentin Tarantino, like the director himself, chronically blurt out in polite company what is extremely problematic even when deliberated in private. Consequently, there is an uncomfortable and often awkward frankness associated with virtually all of Tarantino’s films, particularly when it comes to race and blackness. Yet beyond the debate over whether Tarantino is or is not racist is the fact that his films effectively articulate racial anxieties circulating in American society as they engage longstanding racial discourses and hint at emerging trends. This radical racial politics—always present in Tarantino’s films but kept very much on the quiet—is the subject of Race on the QT. Adilifu Nama concisely deconstructs and reassembles the racial dynamics woven into Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained, as they relate to historical and current racial issues in America. Nama’s eclectic fusion of cultural criticism and film analysis looks beyond the director’s personal racial attitudes and focuses on what Tarantino’s filmic body of work has said and is saying about race in America symbolically, metaphorically, literally, impolitely, cynically, sarcastically, crudely, controversially, and brilliantly.African Americans in motion picturesAfrican Americans in motion pictures.791.4302/33092Nama Adilifu1088667MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818955703321Race on the QT3968428UNINA