03855nam 2200817 450 991081949270332120200120101828.01-5261-4798-X1-5261-3874-31-5261-2617-610.7765/9781526126177(CKB)4100000006370977(MiAaPQ)EBC5495635(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046384(OCoLC)1224156176(MdBmJHUP)muse92799(UkMaJRU)992980136123401631(DE-B1597)659510(DE-B1597)9781526126177(EXLCZ)99410000000637097720200120h20182018 fy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGunslinging justice the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law /Justin A. JoyceManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2018.©20181 online resource (xii, 248 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)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.Gun controlUnited StatesFirearmsLaw and legislationUnited StatesSelf-defense (Law)United StatesFirearms in motion picturesFirearms in popular cultureUnited StatesWestern filmsHistory and criticismWesternsbicsscPERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / WesternsbisachElectronic books. American law.Discourse.Gun rights.Justice.Masculinity.Normativity.Revenge.Self-defense.Western genre.Gun controlFirearmsLaw and legislationSelf-defense (Law)Firearms in motion pictures.Firearms in popular cultureWestern filmsHistory and criticism.WesternsPERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Westerns363.330973Joyce Justin A.1676058UkMaJRUBOOK9910819492703321Gunslinging justice4041977UNINA