The Soul of Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino has called his upcoming film Django Unchained a “Southern,” as it takes place in the South, moments before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. His story of runaway slave Django (Jamie Foxx) has been tied to Spaghetti Westerns as a major influence (certainly the title), but the cinematic roots of Tarantino’s project are more complex than just Euro Westerns, and these deserve to be explored. Decades before Fred Williamson or football star Jim Brown made their Wes