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Gunslinging Justice - Justin Joyce

Gunslinging Justice

The American Culture of Gun Violence in Westerns and the Law

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2616-0 (ISBN)
CHF 142,00 inkl. MwSt
Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States. -- .
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. -- .

Justin A. Joyce is Research Director for President McBride at The New School and Managing Editor of the James Baldwin Review -- .

Introduction: the warp, woof, and weave of American gun violence
1 ‘A kind of wild justice’: revenge and constitutional commentary in the Western
2 No retreat: American self-defense doctrine
3 American gun rights: from national defense to self-defense
4 The guns that ‘won the Western’: firearm iconography in western literature and film
5 Guns and governmentality: normative masculinity and disciplined gun violence
6 Deserve’s got [everything] to do with it: property, process, and justice in Unforgiven
7 Old dogs and new tricks: race and justifiable homicide in neoliberalism’s Western imagination
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 26 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5261-2616-8 / 1526126168
ISBN-13 978-1-5261-2616-0 / 9781526126160
Zustand Neuware
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