Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Locating Mr. Tarantino or, who's afraid of metacinema? / Robert von Dassanowsky -- The grand illousion / Srikanth Srinivasan -- Exploding cinema, exploding Hollywood: Inglourious Basterds and the problems of cinematic convention / Imke Meyer -- A slight duplication of efforts: redundancy and the excessive camera in Inglourious Basterds / Chris Fujiwara -- Inglourious Music: revenge, reflexivity and Morricone as muse in Inglourious Basterds / Lisa Coulthard -- Lulu's Menorah: seeing and Nazi-ing / Justin Vicari -- Vengeful violence: Inglourious Basterds, allohistory, and the inversion of victims and perpetrators / Michael D. Richardson -- Inglourious Basterds and the gender of revenge / Heidi Schlipphacke -- Reels of justice: Inglourious Basterds, the sorrow and the pity and Jewish revenge fantasies / Eric Kligerman -- "Fire!" in a crowded theater: liquidating history in Inglorious Basterds / Sharon Willis -- Is Tarantino serious? The twofold image of the auteur and the state of exception / Oliver C. Speck -- Disruptive Violence as means to create a space for reflection: thoughts on Tarantino's attempts at audience irritation / Alexander D. Ornella -- Counterfactuals, quantum physics and cruel monsters in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds / William Brown -- "What shall the history books read?" the debate over Inglourious Basterdsand the limits of representation / Todd Herzog.