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Gunslinging justice : the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law / Justin A. Joyce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joyce, Justin A., author.
- Series:
- Manchester scholarship online.
- Manchester scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gun control--United States.
- Gun control.
- Self-defense (Law)--United States.
- Self-defense (Law).
- Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.
- Firearms.
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- Western television programs--United States--History and criticism.
- Western television programs.
- Western films--History and criticism.
- Western films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This title 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 26, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526147981
- 152614798X
- 9781526138743
- 1526138743
- 9781526126177
- 1526126176
- OCLC:
- 1224156176
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