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Hollywood's West examines popular perceptions of the frontier as a defining feature of American identity and history. Seventeen essays by prominent film scholars illuminate the allure of life on the edge of civilization and analyze how this region has been represented on big and small screens. Differing characterizations of the frontier in modern popular culture reveal numerous truths about American consciousness and provide insights into many classic Western films and television programs, from RKO's 1931 classic Cimarron to Turner Network Television's recent made-for-TV movies. Covering to

Western television programs --- Western films --- Westerns --- Westerns (Television programs) --- Television programs --- History and criticism.

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Western films --- Western television programs --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In motion pictures. --- Westerns --- Westerns (Television programs) --- Television programs --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States

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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.

Self-defense (Law) --- Firearms --- Gun control --- Firearms in popular culture --- Firearms in motion pictures. --- Western television programs --- Western films --- Actions and defenses --- Criminal law --- Justification (Law) --- Necessity (Law) --- Self-help (Law) --- Westerns --- Westerns (Television programs) --- Television programs --- Motion pictures --- Popular culture --- Law and legislation --- History and criticism. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Westerns --- American law. --- Discourse. --- Gun rights. --- Justice. --- Masculinity. --- Normativity. --- Revenge. --- Self-defense. --- Western genre.