| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Manchester scholarship online |
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Manchester scholarship online
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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 |
| Summary |
Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 20, 2018) |
| Subject |
Western films -- History and criticism
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Firearms in motion pictures.
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Firearms in popular culture -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Firearms in motion pictures
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Firearms in popular culture
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Western films
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526126177 |
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1526126176 |
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9781526126184 |
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1526126184 |
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9781526138743 |
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1526138743 |
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