Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc. -- United States, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures, and Inglourious basterds (Motion picture)
Abstract
Quentin Tarantino's film "Inglourious Basterds" (2009) deals with Nazi-occupied France during World War II, when a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. Contends that the Americanization of the Holocaust in Tarantino's film functions as a critique of American popular culture's tendency to adopt the Holocaust as a screen memory. The film uses postmodern parody to lay bare the ways in which Hollywood representations of the Holocaust have shaped (and sometimes distorted) public memory of the event.
Dassanowsky, Robert., Dassanowsky, Robert. editor., and Dassanowsky, Robert, editor.
Subjects
Inglourious basterds (Motion picture)
Abstract
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 amora.
Triumph des Willens (Motion picture), Inglourious basterds (Motion picture), National socialism in motion pictures., Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century., Motion pictures -- History -- 21st century., and History.
Inglourious basterds (Motion picture), World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war., National socialism in motion pictures., and War films -- History and criticism.
Inglourious basterds (Motion picture), Jewish soldiers -- Drama., Jews -- France -- Drama., World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war., National socialism in motion pictures., and War films.
Inglourious basterds (Motion picture) and Motion picture plays.
Abstract
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler.
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