Gunslinging justice : the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law /

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Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Joyce, Justin A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Series:Manchester scholarship online.
Subjects:
Western films > History and criticism.
Firearms in motion pictures.
Firearms in popular culture > United States.
Westerns > Histoire et critique.
Armes à feu au cinéma.
Armes à feu dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Firearms in motion pictures
Firearms in popular culture
Western films
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • 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 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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