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Gunslinging Justice
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Author : Justin A. Joyce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-20
Gunslinging Justice written by Justin A. Joyce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-20 with Firearms categories.
This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt. Cover design by Jared Scott.
Gunslinging Justice
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Author : Justin Joyce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05
Gunslinging Justice written by Justin Joyce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05 with categories.
Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States.
Gunslinging Justice
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Author : Justin A. Joyce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Gunslinging Justice written by Justin A. Joyce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Gun control categories.
Gunsling Justice examines representations of gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States. The genre's climatic gun violence has been read as a symbolic opposition between the ideals of "the law" embodied in the 'civilized' American legal system and a putative more 'savage' justice which resorts to gun violence to resolve disputes. I argue, in fact, that this opposition between "the law" and extralegal gun violence is progressively undone in the genre's formulaic shootouts. While these shootouts may look like a masculine opposition to the codified and mediated American legal system, this gun violence is actually enshrined in the development of American laws regulating self-defense and gun possession. American jurisprudence transformed the English common law obligation to retreat "to the wall" into a far-reaching doctrine of legally justifiable homicide that advocates standing one's ground in self-defense. Viewed in this light, the climatic gun violence of a seminal Western text like Wister's 1902 novel, The Virginian, of the classic 1952 film High Noon, seeks not to oppose "the law," but rather to expand its scope. My approach to the Western is unique because my research traces the genre in both its literary and cinematic forms and relates the genre's changing representational and iconographic tropes to paradigmatic shifts in the American legal system. My interdisciplinary approach, which seeks to historicize and contextualize the iconographic tropes of the genre across varied cultural and social forms, breaks from psychoanalytic perspectives which have long dominated studies of film and legal discourse and occluded historical contigencies integral to the work cultural forms do in the world. From nineteenth century texts like Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and Reconstruction era dime novels, through early twentieth century works like The Virginian, to classic Western and more recent films like Unforgiven (1992), my work looks to the intersections between American law and various media that have enabled a cultural, social, and political acceptance of defensive gun violence that is still with us today.
Gunslinger Justice
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Author : Dean W. Ballenger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Gunslinger Justice written by Dean W. Ballenger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Gunslinger Justice
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Author : Jere D. James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Gunslinger Justice written by Jere D. James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Fiction categories.
Author Jere D. James skillfully concludes the six-book Jake Silver Adventure Series with Gunslinger Justice, featuring Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Silver, gunslinger Richard Moody, outlaw Diego Fuentes, and Apache Nantan Lupan. Set primarily in Arizona and Mexico, the brutal, action-packed Gunslinger Justice challenges Silver and Moody with life-changing personal and moral decisions. The results are not what readers would expect.
Frontier Justice In The Wild West
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Author : R. Michael Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2007-06-01
Frontier Justice In The Wild West written by R. Michael Wilson and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-01 with History categories.
Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Chapters include: the bungled hanging of Tom Ketchum who was beheaded by the noose; the unique trigger for the trapdoor used to hang Tom Horn; "Big Nose" George Parrott who was skinned, pickled, and made into a pair of shoes; the double trials of Jack McCall, assassin of Wild Bill Hickok; the hanging of a woman-Elizabeth Potts; the shooting of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre infamy; and the only use of a double "twitch-up" gallows; etc. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial information, and rarely-seen photographs.
The Last Western
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Author : Paul Stasi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-12-20
The Last Western written by Paul Stasi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-20 with Social Science categories.
Perhaps the most sophisticated and complex of shows in HBO's recent history, Deadwood has surprisingly little coverage in our current scholarship. Grounding contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity and American exceptionalism in its nineteenth-century setting, Deadwood revises our understanding of a formative period for the American nation through a re-examination of one of the main genres through which this national story has been transmitted: the Western. With contributions from scholars in American studies, literature, and film and television studies, The Last Western situates Deadwood in the context of both its nineteenth-century setting and its twenty-first-century audience. Together, these essays argue for the series as a provocative meditation on both the state and historical formation of U.S. empire, examining its treatment of sovereign power and political legitimacy, capital accumulation and dispossession, racial and gender identities, and social and family structures, while attending to the series' peculiar and evocative aesthetic forms. What emerges from this collection is the impressive range of Deadwood's often contradictory engagement with both nineteenth and twenty-first century America.
Transnationalism And Imperialism
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Author : Hervé Mayer
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Transnationalism And Imperialism written by Hervé Mayer and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Performing Arts categories.
While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism. Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent era to present day as the genre has circulated the world. Contributors examine the reception and production of American Westerns outside the US alongside the transnational aspects of American productions, and they consider the work of minority directors who use the genre to interrogate a visual history of oppression. By viewing Western films through a transnational lens and focusing on the reinterpretations, appropriations, and parallel developments of the genre outside the US, editors Hervé Mayer and David Roche contribute to a growing body of literature that debunks the pervasive correlation between the genre and American identity. Perfect for media studies and political science, Transnationalism and Imperialism reveals that Western films are more than cowboys; they are a critical intersection where issues of power and coloniality are negotiated.
Crystal Gunslinger The Obsidian Outlaws A Dark Fantasy Western Adventure
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Author : Oliver Laws
language : en
Publisher: Oliver Laws
Release Date : 2022-12-20
Crystal Gunslinger The Obsidian Outlaws A Dark Fantasy Western Adventure written by Oliver Laws and has been published by Oliver Laws this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-20 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
The Warped Scorch is known as the most dangerous area on the continent of Lux for good reason. Ever since a strange meteor hit the land and transformed it into a crystal hellscape, all four bordering nations have been trying to establish a foothold in the extremely dangerous new territory and lay claim to its many treasures. Cyrus is a crystal gunslinger, one of the individuals that face the horrors of the Scorch on a daily basis in order to make a living. With his trusty ruby repeater and plenty of experience, he is prepared to deal with whatever challenges the strange creatures and deadly environment can throw at him. But Cyrus will soon learn that the true horrors of the Scorch are much more human in nature, and no matter how hard he tries, escaping his past will be nearly impossible.
The 1619 Project
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Author : Nikole Hannah-Jones
language : en
Publisher: One World
Release Date : 2021-11-16
The 1619 Project written by Nikole Hannah-Jones and has been published by One World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with History categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. “[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire NOW AN EMMY-WINNING HULU ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning 1619 Project issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself. This book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation’s founding and construction—and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life. Featuring contributions from: Leslie Alexander • Michelle Alexander • Carol Anderson • Joshua Bennett • Reginald Dwayne Betts • Jamelle Bouie • Anthea Butler • Matthew Desmond • Rita Dove • Camille T. Dungy • Cornelius Eady • Eve L. Ewing • Nikky Finney • Vievee Francis • Yaa Gyasi • Forrest Hamer • Terrance Hayes • Kimberly Annece Henderson • Jeneen Interlandi • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers • Barry Jenkins • Tyehimba Jess • Martha S. Jones • Robert Jones, Jr. • A. Van Jordan • Ibram X. Kendi • Eddie Kendricks • Yusef Komunyakaa • Kevin M. Kruse • Kiese Laymon • Trymaine Lee • Jasmine Mans • Terry McMillan • Tiya Miles • Wesley Morris • Khalil Gibran Muhammad • Lynn Nottage • ZZ Packer • Gregory Pardlo • Darryl Pinckney • Claudia Rankine • Jason Reynolds • Dorothy Roberts • Sonia Sanchez • Tim Seibles • Evie Shockley • Clint Smith • Danez Smith • Patricia Smith • Tracy K. Smith • Bryan Stevenson • Nafissa Thompson-Spires • Natasha Trethewey • Linda Villarosa • Jesmyn Ward