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Django Unchained (Original title)Jango Unchained (Help search title)
Dates: 2012 (Copyright), 2012 (Release)

Country: USA

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Adventure drama. In pre-Civil War America, a slave named Django teams up with bounty hunter Dr King Schultz to track down the evil Brittle brothers, whom Django alone can indentify. Django also hopes to find his wife, Broomhilda, taken long ago by slave traders. Schultz and Django eventually find themselves up against Calvin Candie, owner of a notorious plantation known as Candyland.

Genre:
Western

Subjects:
Slavery, Revenge
Releases
Date: 25 December 2012Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 141 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Weinstein Company, The
Date: 18 January 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 141 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Sony Pictures Releasing

Books held in BFI Reuben Library (13)
Title: Weird westerns: race, gender, genre
Author: Fine, Kerry  Pages: 453 pages
Description: Also includes chapters on the tv series Firefly (2002), Timeless (2016-18) and Legends of Tomorrow (2016- )

Title: contemporary western: an American genre post-9/11
Author: WHITE, John  Pages: 199 pages

Title: African American cinema through black lives consciousness
Author: REID, Mark A.  Pages: x, 310 pages

Title: (Re)writing without borders: contemporary intermedial perspectives on literature and the visual arts
Author: Le Juez, Brigitte  Pages: 207 pages
Description: Essays originating in the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies Biennial Congress on the theme of "Longing and Belonging" held in Dublin and Galway, August 2015. The book also includes chapters on the television series Justified (2010-2015) and the film Quanto Vale ou é por Quilo (2005).

Title: Tarantino: a retrospective
Author: SHONE, Tom  Pages: 255 pages

Title: Critical perspectives on the western: from A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained
Author: Broughton, Lee  Pages: xvi, 230 pages
Description: The book also includes discussion of the television series Justified (2010-2015).

Title: Leonardo DiCaprio: anatomy of an actor
Author: COLOMBANI, Florence  Pages: 191 pages

Title: post-2000 film Western: contexts, transnationality, hybridity
Author: Paryz, Marek  Pages: xii, 265 pages
Description: Also discusses The Englishman's Boy (2008).

Title: Race on the QT: blackness and the films of Quentin Tarantino
Author: NAMA, Adilifu  Pages: 169 pages

Title: Movies in the age of Obama: the era of post racial and neo-racist cinema
Author: Izzo, David Garrett  Pages: xii, 301 pages

Title: Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: the continuation of metacinema
Author: SPECK, Oliver C.  Pages: vi, 322 pages

Title: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: critical perspectives on white-authored narratives of black life
Author: Garcia, Claire Oberon  Pages: x, 255 pages

Title: Heroism and gender in war films
Author: Ritzenhoff, Karen A.  Pages: xv, 271 pages
Description: Also discusses television series Homeland (2011-).