Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Festa, Melodia

Titolo:

“Revenge is never a straight Line:” Whitewashing Blackness, Blaxploitation and the Development of White Imagery in Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Anno:

2024

Tipologia prodotto:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Nome rivista:

LITERA

ISSN Rivista:

2602-2117

N° Volume:

Litera

Numero o Fascicolo:

34.2

Intervallo pagine:

505-520

Parole chiave:

Tarantino, Django Unchained, blaxploitation, race, revenge

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

Despite its release dates back to 2012, Tarantino’s Django Unchained remains one of the most visual and memorable cinematic representations of slavery in American cinema. The film’s release inaugurated a long narrative cycle in Hollywood of bold portrayals of slavery on the big screen. However, Tarantino’s revisionist depiction of chattel slavery has generated a debate that is still open about the trouble for a white filmmaker to “revise” one of the darkest pages of American history infusing it with outlandish humor. The essay undertakes an analysis of how, beneath Django Unchained’s apparent depiction of black empowerment, Tarantino constructs an interplay between slave heroism and revenge, developing a form of “blaxploitation” through “white” revenge fantasies. In so doing, Tarantino creates a cinematic circularity that departs from the Spaghetti Western genre, develops the image of a black hero, ultimately creating a cinematic circularity that culminates in an aesthetic representation of vengeance that reclaims the memory of slavery and uses African American cultural history as a cinematic tool to offer a white perspective on chattel slavery. As such, the ultimate aim of this contribution is to shed light on how Tarantino’s whitewashes slave rebellion.

Pagina Web:

https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/litera/issue/current

Id prodotto:

143566

Handle IRIS:

11562/1148308

ultima modifica:

29 dicembre 2024

Citazione bibliografica:

Festa, Melodia, “Revenge is never a straight Line:” Whitewashing Blackness, Blaxploitation and the Development of White Imagery in Tarantino’s Django Unchained «LITERA» , vol. Litera , n. 34.2 , 2024 , pp. 505-520

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