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

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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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Joyce, Justin A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Self-defense (Law) > United States.
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
Gun control > United States.
Firearms in popular culture > United States.
Firearms in motion pictures.
Western television programs > United States > History and criticism.
Western films > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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