Winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary
Source Work in Popular and American Culture, Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association, 2016 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.
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