03447oam 22006614a 450 991047885460332120201130033005.01-5261-4798-X1-5261-3874-31-5261-2617-6(CKB)4100000006370977(MiAaPQ)EBC5495635(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046384(OCoLC)1224156176(MdBmJHUP)muse92799(EXLCZ)99410000000637097720201123e20202018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGunslinging justiceThe American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law /Justin A. JoyceBaltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2020©20201 online resource (v, 183 pages)Manchester scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2018.1-5261-2618-4 1-5261-2616-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-241) and index.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.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.Manchester scholarship online.Self-defense (Law)United StatesFirearmsLaw and legislationUnited StatesGun controlUnited StatesFirearms in popular cultureUnited StatesFirearms in motion picturesWestern television programsUnited StatesHistory and criticismWestern filmsHistory and criticismElectronic books. Self-defense (Law)FirearmsLaw and legislationGun controlFirearms in popular cultureFirearms in motion pictures.Western television programsHistory and criticism.Western filmsHistory and criticism.791.436278Joyce Justin A.906481MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910478854603321Gunslinging justice2027144UNINA