Django Unchained Research

Django Unchained :

Is Postmodern because:

*Costume- The blue suit (The Blue Boy by Gainsborough)

*Django's green jacket and cowboy hat (Little Joe from Bonanza)


African American-Hero-Unusual-Yet the hero is not actually a typical hero.

German Hero- Unusual- Usually White American


The whole film is a mash-up:

Western, Southern Melodrama, Revenge movie, love story, revenge movie, references other QT films.

Settings- No cowboys, Revisionist Western-The hero's.

Django Unchained is often seen as controversial due to the frequent use of the N-Word which viewers find offensive. Tarintino uses this to create effect and holds nothing back in his brutal exposistion of the wild west.


Hybrization: Comedy with Western.



The plight and burden of the black man is not one well covered in the Western genre.


Spaghetti Western- Italian Cast

Spaghetti Western, also known as ItalianWestern or Macaroni Western (primarily in Japan), is a broad subgenre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.


Ennio Morricone- Legendary Italian composer.- Spaghetti Western


The soundtrack.


An exploitation film is any film which tries to succeed financially byexploiting a current trend, a niche genre, or a lurid subject matter. Subjects which these films exploit include, but are not limited to, sex, violence, and romance.

The reproduction of exactly the same font style as the original Django film. The same as Corbucci's Italian Western.
Examples of Intertextual references:
The reproduction of exactly the same font style as the original Django film. The same as Corbucci's Italian Western.

In The Heat of The Night- 1967- Jewison- Mr. Tibbs drives up to see Endicott, a wealthy plantation owner...Mirrowed in the sequence which sees Django in his newly transformed personna of the Bounty Hunter rides past the field slaves of a plantation owned by Big Daddy.

Once Upon a Time In The West-1968, Leone

The Big Silence-1968, Corbucci -The wintery backdrop is replicated in Django.

Taxi Driver, 1977, Scorsese- Bickle's sliding gun contraption which he makes for the final blood bath is used by Dr Schultz in the slaying of Candie.


Mise En Scene Intertextual references:


Rhett Butler- Gone With The Wind- 1939- Candies Costuming.


Key Terms To Use

• intertextuality – one media text referring to another

• parody – mocking something in an original way

• pastiche – a stylistic mask, a form of self-conscious imitation

• homage – imitation from a respectful standpoint

• bricolage – mixing up and using different genres and styles- Seen in Django Unchained's soundtrack.

• simulacra – simulations or copies that are replacing ‘real’ artefacts

• hyperreality – a situation where images cease to be rooted in reality

• fragmentation – used frequently to describe most aspects of society, often in relation to identity