Justin Joyce

Gunslinging justice (eBook, ePUB)

The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• 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