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"The Western: Parables of the American Dream is the first comprehensive historical survey of the western in all of its various manifestations, from the earliest captivity narratives and pioneer biographies to contemporary western novels, films, and television series. But more, this text also contrasts the fictional and the real West. Wallmann's sweep through the western is a careful, incisive, and blessedly non-theoretical examination of the implications of the western from the beginning to the present, taking the reader deep into the heart of the subject and offering original and perceptive theories of how the western reflects the evolution of America."--Jacket.

Western stories --- American fiction --- Western television programs --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Western films --- Western television programs. --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Westerns --- Motion pictures --- Westerns (Television programs) --- Television programs --- American Western stories --- Western fiction --- Western stories, American --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- West [U.S.] in literature

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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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Western films --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Western television programs. --- Television actors and actresses --- Westerns --- Acteurs et actrices de cinéma --- Emissions western télévisées --- Acteurs de télévision --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- Biography. --- Histoire et critique --- Biographies --- Biographies

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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.