Django Unchained: Thursday February 7, 12-1 p.m.

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Midday_020713_HR_1_PopCulture.mp3

Quentin Tarantino’s incendiary film on slavery has garnered two Oscar nominations, including best picture, and it has sparked a lot of controversy. What happens when Tarantino, the director of Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds, takes on the horrible institution of slavery with a paean to the spaghetti western? Our guests: Midday culture commentator Sheri Parks, associate dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, and Hollis Robbins, chair of the Department of Humanities at the Peabody Institute and associate research scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University.