Django Unchained should be nominated for the World Fantasy Award: historicity vs world-building

Friends wanted to see Django Unchained, so I saw it a second time. I think I liked it more this time, because I knew the conclusion was going to be nothing but spectacle. Tarrantino's a master of genre artistry: he creates worlds that are true to themselves, dreams or nightmares where humans behave by the logic of their genre—in this case, the spaghetti western—rather than the real world.

A quick breakdown of the historical inaccuracies in Django Unchained, focusing on slavery:

In the film's op...