Django Unchained (2012)

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A slave named Django teams up with the German bounty hunter Dr King Schultz who freed him to track down the three Brittle brothers. Django is the only one who can identify them. Django performs so well in the killing of the outlaw brothers, that he becomes Schultz' partner and together they start a search for Django's wife Broomhilda who has been sold downriver. They eventually find her in the possession of Calvin Candie the brutal owner of the plantation knows as Candyland.

Nominated for five Academy Awards:
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz
Best Original Screenplay
Best Sound Editing
Best Cinematography

Books with substantial mentioning of Django Unchained

		Lawrence P. Jackson Hold it real still, Clint Eastwood, race, and the cinema of the American West Baltimore, 2022

		Aliza S. Wong Spaghetti westerns, A viewer's guide Lanham, Maryland, 2019

		Adilifu Nama Race on the QT, Blackness and the films of Quentin Tarantino Austin, 2015

		Melvyn Stokes American History through Hollywood Film, From the Revolution to the 1960s London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney, 2013

Articles on Django Unchained

Rob Kroes, A Spaghetti Southern: Landscapes of Fear in Django Unchained, in: Marek Paryz, John R. Leo (eds.), The post-2000 film western, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY, 2015

Beth Jane Toren, Featuring Atrocity & H8tful Heritage, Tarantino's Revision of Civil War Mythology, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017

Django Unchained, in: Empire, nr. 277 (July), 2012 pp. 12-17

Damon Wise, Unchained melodies, The story behind the Django soundtrack, in: Empire, nr. 284 (February), 2013 pp. 153

Kim Newman, Trail blazer, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 2013 pp. 34-37

Tim Lucas, Going back to my roots, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2 (February), 2013 pp. 38-39

Geoffrey O'Brien, Heart of Dixie, in: Filmcomment, nr. 1 (January/February), 2013 pp. 30-33