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

By:

Joyce, Justin A [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781526126177
9781526126184
9781526138743

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN1995 .G867 2018

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Contents:

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.

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

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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.

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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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