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Author Joyce, Justin A., author.
Title Gunslinging justice : the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law / Justin A. Joyce.
Publisher Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Copyright date ©2018



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Contents Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 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 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note In English.
ISBN 9781526126177 (electronic bk.)
1526126176 (electronic bk.)
9781526126184
1526126184
9781526138743 (electronic book)
1526138743 (electronic book)
9781526126160
1526126168
9781526147981 (paperback)
Standard # 10.7765/9781526126177 doi
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Author Joyce, Justin A., author.
Series Manchester scholarship online
Manchester scholarship online.
Subject Western films -- History and criticism.
Firearms in motion pictures.
Firearms in popular culture -- United States.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 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 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note In English.
ISBN 9781526126177 (electronic bk.)
1526126176 (electronic bk.)
9781526126184
1526126184
9781526138743 (electronic book)
1526138743 (electronic book)
9781526126160
1526126168
9781526147981 (paperback)
Standard # 10.7765/9781526126177 doi
Author Joyce, Justin A., author.
Series Manchester scholarship online
Manchester scholarship online.
Subject Western films -- History and criticism.
Firearms in motion pictures.
Firearms in popular culture -- United States.

Subject Western films -- History and criticism.
Firearms in motion pictures.
Firearms in popular culture -- United States.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 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 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note In English.
ISBN 9781526126177 (electronic bk.)
1526126176 (electronic bk.)
9781526126184
1526126184
9781526138743 (electronic book)
1526138743 (electronic book)
9781526126160
1526126168
9781526147981 (paperback)
Standard # 10.7765/9781526126177 doi

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