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



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Autore: Joyce Justin A. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gunslinging justice : the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law / / Justin A. Joyce Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018
©2018
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina: 363.330973
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: American law
Discourse
Gun rights
Justice
Masculinity
Normativity
Revenge
Self-defense
Western genre
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Gunslinging justice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-4798-X
1-5261-3874-3
1-5261-2617-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819492703321
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Serie: Manchester scholarship online.