Old dogs and new tricks: race and justifiable homicide in neoliberalism’s Western imagination
Old dogs and new tricks: race and justifiable homicide in neoliberalism’s Western imagination
This concluding chapter examines the relationship between the increasing codification of aggressive “Stand Your Ground” laws since 2005 and the continued relevance of the Western as a popular genre. This final chapter presents a reading of two contemporary Westerns, the television series Justified (2010-15) and Quentin Tarrantino's film, Django Unchained (2012), arguing that the film epitomizes the challenge of gun possession and self-defense within a neoliberal state.
Keywords: “stand your ground”, Western films and television, Gun possession, Neoliberalism, Corporeality, Gun violence, Seld-defense, Race, Gender
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