Gunslinging justice : the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law /
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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. 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.