Gunslinging justice : the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law / / Justin A. Joyce

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819492703321
• Autore: Joyce Justin A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-5261-4798-X; 1-5261-3874-3; 1-5261-2617-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Collana: Manchester scholarship online
• Disciplina: 363.330973
• Soggetti: Gun control - United States; Firearms - Law and legislation - United States; Self-defense (Law) - United States; Firearms in motion pictures; Firearms in popular culture - United States; Western films - History and criticism; Westerns; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Westerns; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the warp, woof, and weave of American gun violence -- 'A kind of wild justice' : revenge and constitutional commentary in the Western -- No retreat : American self-defense doctrine -- American gun rights : from national defense to self-defense -- The guns that 'won the Western' : firearm iconography in Western iconography in Western literature and film -- Guns and governmentality : normative masculinity and disciplined gun violence -- 'Deserve's got [everything] to do with it' : property, process, and justice in Unforgiven -- Old dogs and new tricks : race and justifiable homicide in neoliberalism's Western imagination.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western ; genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.