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Gunslinging justice: Justifiable gun violence in American law and Westerns.

机译：枪支正义：美国法律和西方人中有正当理由的枪支暴力。

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Gunslinging 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 climactic gun violence has been read as a symbolic opposition between the ideals of "the law" embodied in the 'civilized' American legal system and a putatively 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 climactic gun violence of a seminal Western text like Wister's 1902 novel, The Virginian, or 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 contingencies 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 Westerns 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.
机译：Gunslinging Justice审查了西方电影和文学中枪支暴力的表现形式，以及美国合理的杀人案和枪支权利的变化。该类型的高潮枪支暴力已被理解为美国“文明”法律体系中体现的“法律”理想与诉诸于枪支暴力解决争端的假定的“野蛮”正义之间的象征性对立。我认为，事实上，这种类型的枪战中“法律”与法外枪支暴力之间的这种对立逐渐消失了；尽管这些枪战看起来像是对编纂和调解的美国法律体系的男性反对，但这种枪支暴力是实际上被美国的自卫和持枪法令所约束。美国的法理学将英国普通法将“撤退到墙外”的义务转变为意义深远的，有合法理由的凶杀学说，主张坚持自卫。从这种角度来看，诸如韦斯特（Wister）1902年的小说《弗吉尼亚人》（The Virginian）或经典的1952年电影《正午》（High Noon）等具有开创性的西方文字的高潮枪法暴力，并不是在反对“法律”，而是在扩大其范围。西方之所以独特，是因为我的研究从文学和电影形式上追溯了该类型，并将该类型不断变化的表征和肖像趋向与美国法律体系的范式转换联系在一起。我的跨学科方法试图对各种文化和社会形式的流派的象形化进行历史化和语境化，从精神分析的观点出发，这种观点长期以来一直占据着电影和法律话语研究的主导地位，而封闭了文化形式在作品中不可或缺的历史偶然性世界。从19世纪的文本（如Cooper的《莫西干人的末日》（The Last of the Mohicans，1826年）和重建时期的毛钱小说），到20世纪初的作品（如The Virginian），再到经典的西方电影，以及诸如Unforgiven（1992年）这样的最新电影，我的作品都着眼于美国人之间的交集。法律和各种媒体，使我们在文化，社会和政治上都接受了防御性枪支暴力，这一点今天仍然存在。

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    Joyce, Justin A.;

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    University of Illinois at Chicago.;

  • 授予单位 University of Illinois at Chicago.;
  • 学科 American Studies.;Cinema.;Law.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2010
  • 页码 183 p.
  • 总页数 183
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 遥感技术;
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:36:55

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