Tag: American history

  • Slavery, cinema, and sensitivity: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained

    Slavery, cinema, and sensitivity: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained

    Reviewed in this essay: Django Unchained. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Running time 165 minutes. Now playing in Toronto theaters. In recent weeks, moviegoers have been treated to two radically different films about American slavery, each of them trying to unpack the burden of that violent…