LEADER 03855nam 2200817 450 001 9910793026603321 005 20200120101828.0 010 $a1-5261-4798-X 010 $a1-5261-3874-3 010 $a1-5261-2617-6 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526126177 035 $a(CKB)4100000006370977 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5495635 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046384 035 $a(OCoLC)1224156176 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse92799 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992980136123401631 035 $a(DE-B1597)659510 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526126177 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006370977 100 $a20200120h20182018 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGunslinging justice $ethe American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law /$fJustin A. Joyce 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s) 225 1 $aManchester scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a1-5261-2618-4 311 $a1-5261-2616-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aThis book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt. 410 0$aManchester scholarship online. 606 $aGun control$zUnited States 606 $aFirearms$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aSelf-defense (Law)$zUnited States 606 $aFirearms in motion pictures 606 $aFirearms in popular culture$zUnited States 606 $aWestern films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWesterns$2bicssc 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Westerns$2bisach 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAmerican law. 610 $aDiscourse. 610 $aGun rights. 610 $aJustice. 610 $aMasculinity. 610 $aNormativity. 610 $aRevenge. 610 $aSelf-defense. 610 $aWestern genre. 615 0$aGun control 615 0$aFirearms$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aSelf-defense (Law) 615 0$aFirearms in motion pictures. 615 0$aFirearms in popular culture 615 0$aWestern films$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aWesterns 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Westerns 676 $a363.330973 700 $aJoyce$b Justin A.$01531272 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793026603321 996 $aGunslinging justice$93776781 997 $aUNINA