Joyce Gunslinging justice

The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2617-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joyce, Justin

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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