Description:
A wide-ranging study of Tarantino's controversial 2009 film, written by a luminous line-up of international scholars.
Brief description: Robert Dassanowsky was Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, an independent film producer, former President of the Austrian Studies Association, and author of Austrian Cinema (2005); New Austrian Film, ed. (2011); World Film Locations: Vienna, ed. (2012); Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933-1938 (2018).
Review Quotes: "Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds leaves readers with a very powerful statement that is capable of displaying what every controversy addressed in this book was aching to illuminate. Von Dassanowsky has composed these articles in such a way that the book is capable of defending every reason behind Tarantino's directorial choices and representation of history." --Taylor Woodell, Film Matters