TY - BOOK AU - Joyce,Justin A. TI - Gunslinging justice: the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law T2 - Manchester scholarship online SN - 9781526126177 AV - PN1995 .G867 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Western films KW - History and criticism KW - Firearms in motion pictures KW - Firearms in popular culture KW - United States KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1875935&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -