Hang 'em High: Law and Disorder in Western Films and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780786468386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 264 str.

Herzberg, Bob

Opis

For more than a century, the Western film has proven to be an enduring genre. From the beginning, both literature and film would usually perpetuate the myth of the Old West as a place where justice always triumphed and all concerned (except the villains) pursued the law. The facts, however, reflect abuses of due process: lynch mobs and hired gunslingers rather than lawmen regularly pursued lawbreakers, and even in courts of law justice didn't always prevail. This book discusses the many Western films, as well as the novels they are based on, that illustrate distortions of the law in the Old West.