Autorentext

Justin A. Joyce is Research Director at The New School, New York City

Klappentext

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

Inhalt

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