0. Introduction: A Southern State of Exception Oliver C. Speck, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Part I. Cultural Roots and Intertexts: Germany, France, US 20
1. Dr. 'King' Schultz as Ideologue and Emblem: The German Enlightenment and the Legacy of the 1848 Revolutions in Django Unchained
Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
2. Franco-faux-ne : Django's jive
Margaret Ozierski, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
3. Of Handshakes and Dragons: Django's German Cousins
Dana Weber, Florida State University, USA
4. Django and Lincoln: The Suffering Slave and the Law of Slavery
Gregory L. Kaster, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA
Part II. Philosophy Unchained: Ethics, Body Space and Evil
5. Bodies in and out of Place: Django Unchained and Body-Spaces
Alexander D. Ornella, University of Hull, UK
6. The "D" is Silent, but Human Rights Are Not: Django Unchained as Human Rights Discourse
Kate E. Temoney, Florida State University, USA
7. Hark, Hark, the (dis)Enchanted Kantian Or: Tarantino's 'Evil' and its Anti-Cathartic Resonance
Dara Waldron, Limerick Institute of Technology, UK
8. Value and Violence in Django Unchained
William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK
Part III. Questions of Race and Representation: What is a "Black Film"?
9. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film": "What does it mean to be a black film in twenty-first century America?"
Heather Ashley Hayes, Whitman College, USA, and Gilbert B. Rodman, University of Minnesota, USA
10. Chained To It: The Recurrence of the Frontier Hero in the Films of Quentin Tarantino
Samuel P. Perry
11. "Crowdsourcing" "The Bad-Ass Slave": A critique of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
Reynaldo Anderson, Harris-Stowe State University, USA, D.L. Stephenson, Western Connecticut State University, USA and Chante Anderson, Texas Southern University, USA
12. Guess Who's Coming to Get Her: Stereotypes, Mythification, and White Redemption
Ryan J. Weaver and Nichole K. Kathol, University of Wisconsin-Barron County, USA
13. Django Blues: Whiteness and Hollywood's continued failures
David J. Leonard, Washington State University, USA
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index