Justin Joyce

Gunslinging justice (eBook, ePUB)

The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526126184
• Artikelnr.: 57471767

Autorenporträt

Justin A. Joyce is Research Director at The New School, New York City

Inhaltsangabe

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